The organizational history of Caltech is the loom on which Kay has woven an intricate fabric of the molecular vision of life.
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Lily E. Kay received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and was a recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in bibliography at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and has taught at the University of Chicago. Since 1989 she has been an assistant professor of history of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The organizational history of Caltech is the loom on which Kay has woven an intricate fabric of the molecular vision of life.
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