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Michael Dan Gordin (born November 3, 1974) is an American science historian and
Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was ...
. Born in
New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...
, Gordin studied at
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
with a bachelor's degree in 1996 and a doctorate in 2001. From 2003 he was at
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
, where he is now a professor. He has done research on 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 Lysenkoism ( ; ) was a political campaign led by the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon ...
,
Immanuel Velikovsky Immanuel Velikovsky (; rus, Иммануи́л Велико́вский, p=ɪmənʊˈil vʲɪlʲɪˈkofskʲɪj; 17 November 1979) was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist. He is the author of several books offering Pseudohi ...
and pseudosciences, the early history of the
atomic bomb A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear weapon), producing a nuclear expl ...
s and the
Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
,
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...
in Prague, history of global scientific languages, and the life of
Dmitri Mendeleyev Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev ( ; ) was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known ele ...
and the history of the
periodic table The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows (" periods") and columns (" groups"). It is an icon of chemistry and is widely used in physics and other s ...
. In 2019 he became a member of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (), in short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded on 1 January 1652, based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the ''Academi ...
.


Selected publications

*A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table, Basic Books 2004, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press 2018 *Five days in August : how World War II became a nuclear war, Princeton U. Press 2007 * Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly, Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2009
The textbook case of a priority dispute : D. I. Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the periodic system
in: Jessica Riskin, Mario Biagioli (eds.), Nature engaged, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, pp. 59–82 *How Lysenkoism became pseudoscience : Dobzhansky to Velikovsky, Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 45, 2012, pp. 443–468 *with Paul Erickson, Judy Klein, Lorraine Daston,
Rebecca Lemov Rebecca M. Lemov is a professor of the History of Science at Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for it ...
, Thomas Sturm: How reason almost lost its mind : the strange career of Cold War rationality, University of Chicago Press 2013 * Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. *The Pseudoscience Wars:
Immanuel Velikovsky Immanuel Velikovsky (; rus, Иммануи́л Велико́вский, p=ɪmənʊˈil vʲɪlʲɪˈkofskʲɪj; 17 November 1979) was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist. He is the author of several books offering Pseudohi ...
and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. *as editor with Peter Galison, David Kaiser: Routledge History of the Modern Physical Sciences, 4 vols., Routledge 2001 *as editor with Karl Hall, Alexei Kojenikov: Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860–1960, 2008 *as editor with Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash: Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, Princeton, 2010 * *


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gordin, Michael D. 1974 births Living people Harvard University alumni Princeton University faculty American historians of science 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American historians Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 20th-century American male writers