Ken Alder

Ken Alder was born under the sign of Sputnik in Berkeley, California and has spent his career studying scientific change in its social and political context. He teaches history at Northwestern University, where he is the Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities. His previous book, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (Free Press, 2002) won several prizes, was cited as a best book of the year by the New York Times and the Economist, and was translated into thirteen languages. He is also a novelist.