Michael D. Gordin
Author · 8 books
Michael Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he specializes in the history of modern science. In 2013-4 he served as the inaugural director of the Fung Global Fellows Program. He came to Princeton in 2003 after earning his A.B. (1996) and his Ph.D. (2001) from Harvard University, and serving a term at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In 2011 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and was named a Guggenheim Fellow. He has published on the history of science, Russian history, and the history of nuclear weapons.
Series
Books
A Well-ordered Thing
Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table
2004
Scientific Babel
How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
2015
The Pseudoscience Wars
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
2021
Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
2009
Five Days in August
How World War II Became a Nuclear War
2007
Pseudoscience
A Very Short Introduction
2023
On the Fringe
Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
2021
Einstein in Bohemia
2020
