February 11, 2000

Yale Professor Attacks History-Department Recruit Over Book on David Baltimore Case; Louisville's Jon Jory to Join U. of Washington's Drama School

By LILA GUTERMAN and SCOTT HELLER

Yale University hopes to bolster the reputation of its small history-of-science department with two prominent hires. But a senior faculty member has challenged the scholarship of one of the recruits.

Yale has offered tenured posts to Daniel J. Kevles, a professor of humanities at the California Institute of Technology, and Jed Z. Buchwald, a professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discussions are in progress with both historians.

Jon Butler, chairman