Michael D. Gordin
Historian of science and Russia
Michael D. Gordin is an American historian of science and Russia who teaches at Princeton University. He has written on subjects from pseudoscience to the periodic table.
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American Born 1974 in New Jersey, United States
About Michael D. Gordin
Michael Dan Gordin was born in New Jersey in 1974. He completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University in 1996 and finished his PhD there in 2001. He joined Princeton University in 2003 and holds the Rosengarten professorship of Modern and Contemporary History. He was the first director of the Fung Global Fellows Program in 2013-4, and he has also led the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. In 2011 he won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he became a Guggenheim Fellow that same year. Since 2019 he has been a member of Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences. His research covers Russian science in the 18th century, Soviet biological warfare, Lysenkoism, Immanuel Velikovsky and pseudoscience, the early atomic bomb and the Cold War, and the life of Dmitri Mendeleyev. His books include Scientific Babel, The Pseudoscience Wars, and Red Cloud at Dawn.