Michael Gordin
Michael Dan Gordin (born November 3, 1974 in New Jersey ) is an American science historian and Slavist.
Gordin studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1996 and a doctorate in 2001. From 2003 he was at Princeton University , where he is a professor.
He researched the early development of the natural sciences in Russia in the 18th century, biological warfare in the Soviet Union, the relationship of Russian literature to the natural sciences, Lysenkoism , Immanuel Velikovsky and pseudosciences, the early history of the atomic bombs and the Cold War, Albert Einstein in Prague , History of global scientific languages and about Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev and the history of the periodic table.
In 2019, Michael Dan Gordin was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences in the History of Science and Medicine section .
Fonts
- Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- with Paul Erickson, Judy Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm: How reason almost lost its mind: the strange career of Cold War rationality, University of Chicago Press 2013
- The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- The textbook case of a priority dispute: DI Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the periodic system, in: Jessica Riskin, Mario Biagioli (Ed.), Nature engaged, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, pp. 59-82
- How Lysenkoism became pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky, Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 45, 2012, pp. 443-468
- Editor with Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash: Utopia / Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, Princeton, 2010
- Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009
- Editor with Karl Hall, Alexei Kojenikov: Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860–1960, 2008
- Five days in August: how World War II became a nuclear war, Princeton UP 2007
- A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books 2004 (New edition Princeton University Press 2018)
- Editor with Peter Galison, David Kaiser: Routledge History of the Modern Physical Sciences, 4 volumes, Routledge 2001
Web links
- Homepage in Princeton
- Member entry by Michael Dan Gordin at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gordin, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gordin, Michael Dan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science and Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd November 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Jersey |