Gennady Gorelik

Gennady Gorelik (born 1948, Lviv) is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th-century Soviet physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.

In his biography of Sakharov, he provides the documentary explanation of Sakharov's metamorphosis from a secret father of the Soviet H-bomb to most prominent advocate of human rights in the Soviet Union. ^[1]

In 1995, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. ^[2]

Selected publications

• Размерность пространства: историко-методологический анализ [Dimensionality of Space: historical and methodological analysis]. Moscow, 1983
• First Steps of Quantum Gravity and the Planck Values, Studies in the history of general relativity. [Einstein Studies. Vol.3]. Eds. Jean Eisenstaedt, A.J. Kox., Boston, (1992) p. 364-379
• Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and the Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties (1994), with Viktor Ya. Freckle; translated by Valentina M. Levina ISBN   3-7643-2752-9 ^[3]
• The Top Secret life of Lev Landau. Scientific American, 1997, August
• The Metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov. Scientific American, 1999, March
• The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom (2005) ISBN   0-19-515620-X
• Matvei Bronstein and quantum gravity: 70th anniversary of the unsolved problem // Physics-Uspekhi 2005, vol 48, no 10, pp. 1039–1053
• Советская жизнь Льва Ландау The Soviet Life of Lev Landau. Moscow, 2008
• The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives // Physics in Perspective, Vol 11, N 2 / June, 2009, p. 169-197
• A Galilean Answer to the Needham Question // Philosophia Scientiæ 2017, 21(1), 93–110

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• Web exhibit "Andrei SAKHAROV: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights" at American Institute of Physics

Notes

1. Applebaum, Anne (2005-10-05). "Hero". The New York Review of Books. 52 (16). Retrieved 2009-05-01.
2. Gennady Gorelik, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
3. Kragh, Helge (1995). "Review of Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties by Gennady E. Gorelik and Victor Ya. Frenkel, translated by Valentina M. Levina". Isis. 86 (3): 520. doi:10.1086/357307.

External links

• Web-site & publications+
• Gennady Gorelik at IMDb
• "Stories by Gennady Gorelik". Scientific American.