Oren Harman

Oren Harman is an award-winning writer and historian of science.

Oren Harman

Biography

Oren Harman was born in Jerusalem on January 25, 1973. He grew up and was educated in Jerusalem and in New York City, where he attended the Collegiate School of Boys and excelled at soccer (he was dubbed "the little Israeli magician" by New York ''Newsday''). He graduated from Hebrew University Secondary School in Jerusalem. His book, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness, won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize[1] in the category of Science and Technology and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Harman's latest book is Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)

Following three years of service in an elite IDF military unit, Harman studied history and biology at Hebrew University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He then received M.Sc. and D.Phil. degrees with distinction from Oxford University,[2] before spending two years at Harvard University, conducting research and teaching in the Department of History of Science.

Harman was subsequently awarded the Alon Award for academic excellence, and was elected in 2003 to the Young Academy of Sciences of Israel. Since 2008 he is Chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technologyת and Society at Bar-Ilan University.[3] His fields of expertise include the history and philosophy of modern biology, evolutionary theory, the evolution of altruism, 20th-century genetics, the cultural history of science, and historical biography. Harman also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Harman is a frequent contributor to The New Republic[4], and Haaretz Magazine, and is the co-creator of the Israeli Oscar-nominated documentary series "Did Herzl Really Say That?", which explores changing cultural identities in Israel.[5] His work has been featured in Science, Nature, The New York Times, The Times, TLS, The New York Review of Books, The Economist, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Radio Lab, and many others.

Works

  • The Man Who Invented the Chromosome. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Did Herzl Really Say That?! With Yanay Ofran. Director: Ido Bahat. Channel 8. 2006
  • Rebels, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology. With Michael Dietrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. New York: W.W.Norton/Bodley Head/Random House, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84792-062-1
  • Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. With Michael Dietrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013
  • Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018
  • Dreamers, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences. With Michael Dietrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2018
  • Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. With Michael Dietrich and Mark Borrello. Springer. 2018

References

  1. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/la-mediagroup-bookprizewin-2011-0429-htmlstory.html
  2. ↑ Robynn "Swoopy" McCarthy (host), Oren Harman (29 June 2010). "Skepticality". http://www.skepticality.com (Podcast). The Skeptics Society. Retrieved 28 March 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ Harman, Oren. "Oren Harman, Chair | Science, Technology & Society Dept. at Bar Ilan University". Tel Aviv, Israel: Science, Technology and Society Program Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  4. ↑ https://newrepublic.com/authors/oren-harman
  5. ↑ http://www.ruthfilms.com/films/clusters/did-herzl-really-say-that.html
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