Nathaniel Comfort
Nathaniel Comfort

Title: Professor of the History of Medicine

Institution: Johns Hopkins

Discipline: Biology & Medicine

Appearances: 1

Notable: Author of The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (2001) and The Science of Human Perfection (2012); Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology (2015); published 30 essays and reviews in Nature (2001-2019)

Biography

Nathaniel Comfort is a historian of biology whose research focuses on the histories of genetics, eugenics, genomics, biomedicine, and bioethics. He has published extensively in Nature and was one of the few authors selected to celebrate the magazine's 150th anniversary.

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