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Nature 435, 1024-1025 (23 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351024a; Published online 22 June 2005

Dalton Conley profile:  Harder than Rocket Science

Tony Reichhardt1

  1. Tony Reichhardt is a contributing correspondent for Nature in Washington DC.

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Dalton Conley is an award-winning researcher who works on the politically charged issues of race, gender and class. He tells Tony Reichhardt why he wants to stress the 'science' in the social sciences.

For some in the hard sciences, it was difficult to fathom: a sociologist winning the US National Science Foundation's A. T.