Loren Graham

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Loren Raymond Graham (born June 29, 1933 in Hymera , Indiana ) is an American historian of science who is particularly concerned with Russian (Soviet) history of science.

Graham studied at Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1955 and at Columbia University with a master's degree in 1960 and a doctorate in history in 1964. From 1963 he was Assistant Professor of Science History at Indiana University and from 1966 Associate Professor and from 1972 professor of history at Columbia University. From 1978 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1985 at Harvard University .

In 1996 he received the George Sarton Medal . In 1986 he received an honorary doctorate from Purdue University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1969/70 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study . He was also a Woodrow Wilson and Rockefeller Fellow. He is an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he received the Follo Award from the Michigan Historical Society.

Loren Graham has been married to Patricia Graham (former dean at Harvard and professor of the history of education there) since 1955 and has one daughter. He owns a lighthouse on an island in Lake Superior as a summer home, where he volunteered for the Coast Guard and participated in seafarer rescue operations. He also wrote books on the history of the Chippewa Indians on Grand Island in Lake Superior.

Fonts

  • with Oliver Caldwell: Moscow in May 1963: Education and Cybernetics , Washington, 1964
  • The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932 , Princeton University Press, 1967
  • Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union , Alfred Knopf, 1972
  • Between Science and Values , Columbia University Press, 1981
  • Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History , Cambridge University Press, 1993
  • Editor with Wolf Lepenies , Peter Weingart : Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories , Reidel, 1983
  • Editor with Richard Stites by Alexander Bogdanov : Red Star. The First Bolshevik Utopia , Indiana University Press, 1984
  • Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union , Columbia University Press, 1987
  • as editor: Science and the Soviet Social Order , Harvard University Press , 1990
  • The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union , Harvard University Press, 1993
  • The Face in the Rock: the Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa , University of California, 1995, 1998
  • What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? , Stanford University Press, 1998
  • Moscow Stories , Indiana University Press, 2006
  • with Katherine Geffine Carlson: Grand Island and its Families , GIA, 2007
  • with Irina Dezhina: Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform , Indiana University Press, 2008.
  • with Jean-Michel Kantor : Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity , Harvard University Press, 2009 (comparison of the access of French and Russian mathematicians - the Moscow school of Nikolai Lusin , Dmitri Yegorov - to real analysis at the beginning of the 20th . Century).
  • Lysenko's Ghost. Epigenetics and Russia . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2016, ISBN 978-0-674089051 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Loren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graham, Loren R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hymera , Indiana