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According to Wikipedia, Michael Dan Gordin is an American science historian and Slavist. Born in New Jersey, 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 now a professor.

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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (2013) (194)
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind (2013) (189)
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility (2010) (75)
A Well-Ordered Thing (2018) (68)
:The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance. (2007) (49)
Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English (2015) (46)
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (2009) (38)
The Importation of Being Earnest: The Early St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (2000) (34)
Introduction: Utopia and dystopia beyond space and time (2010) (33)
How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky (2012) (33)
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (2007) (31)
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (2012) (24)
The Textbook Case of a Priority Dispute: D. I. Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the Periodic System (2012) (19)
Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English (2015) (18)
Intelligentsia science : the Russian century, 1860-1960 (2008) (18)
A comparison of ethanol partitioning in biological and model membranes: nonideal partitioning is enhanced in synaptosomal membranes. (1989) (15)
Five Days in August (2009) (15)
Making Newtons: Mendeleev, Metrology, and the Chemical Ether (1998) (12)
Einstein and Soviet Ideology (2003) (12)
Paper Tools and Periodic Tables: Newlands and Mendeleev Draw Grids (2018) (11)
The Heidelberg Circle: German Inflections on the Professionalization of Russian Chemistry in the 1860s (2008) (11)
Introduction: Hegemonic Languages and Science (2017) (11)
The Organic Roots of Mendeleev's Periodic Law (2002) (9)
Introduction: Intelligentsia Science Inside and Outside Russia (2008) (9)
A Modernization of "Peerless Homogeneity": The Creation of Russian Smokeless Gunpowder (2003) (9)
D. I. Mendeleev: reflecting on his death in 1907. (2007) (8)
Facing the Music: How Original Was Borodin's Chemistry? (2006) (8)
Evidence and the Instability of Biology (2014) (7)
Points Critical: Russia, Ireland, and Science at the Boundary (2009) (6)
Book Review: The Tory Interpretation of History (2014) (6)
Science and society : the history of modern physical science in the twentieth century (2001) (6)
Political, cultural, and technological impacts on chemistry: An interview with Michael Gordin, Director of Graduate Studies of the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University (2011) (5)
Loose and Baggy Spirits: Reading Dostoevskii and Mendeleev (2001) (5)
The Textbook Case of a Priority Dispute (2012) (5)
The Anthrax Solution: The Sverdlovsk Incident and the Resolution of a Biological Weapons Controversy (1997) (5)
Measure of All the Russias: Metrology and Governance in the Russian Empire (2003) (5)
The problem with pseudoscience (2017) (5)
Translating textbooks: Russian, German, and the language of chemistry. (2012) (5)
The Dostoevsky Machine in Georgetown: scientific translation in the Cold War (2016) (5)
The Table and the Word: Translation, Priority, and the Periodic System of Chemical Elements (2013) (5)
The Princess & the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment (2006) (4)
Lysenko Unemployed: Soviet Genetics after the Aftermath (2018) (4)
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. By Kate Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x, 406 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Maps. $27.95, hard bound. (2014) (4)
Was There Ever a “Stalinist Science”? (2008) (4)
Einstein: His Life and Universe. By Walter Isaacson. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xxii, 675 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-6473-0.) (2007) (3)
Introduction: The languages of scientists (2015) (3)
Ordering the elements (2019) (3)
Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist By Andrew Robinson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 351. Cloth $25.00. ISBN: 978-0300234763. (2022) (3)
Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race (2011) (2)
Myth 27. That a Clear Line of Demarcation Has Separated Science from Pseudoscience (2015) (2)
Einstein in Bohemia (2020) (2)
Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907) (2012) (2)
Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930. By Daniel Beer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. x+229. $45.00. (2010) (2)
:Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius (2009) (1)
When National Styles Were Stylish (2020) (1)
Thinking Systematically: Thomas and Agatha Hughes, Systems, Experts, and Computers (2002) (1)
The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation (2020) (1)
Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II (2020) (1)
The Embrace of Atomic Bomb Orthodoxy and Revisionism (2012) (1)
The Weekday Chemist: The Training of Aleksandr Borodin (2011) (1)
What do we talk about when we talk about language and science? (2020) (1)
Quantum Mechanics : Science and Society (2013) (1)
Technology: Beyond the 'InterNyet' (2016) (1)
1 “What a Go-a-Head People They Are!”: The Hostile Appropriation of Herbert Spencer in Imperial Russia (2016) (1)
Seeing is believing : Professor Vagner's wonderful world (2011) (1)
Babylon, Newton, and All That (2009) (1)
The Other Demarcation Problem (2019) (1)
A Splintered Function: Fate, Faith, and the Father of the Atomic Bomb (2008) (1)
Playing dice with Einstein (2002) (1)
The Age of Hiroshima (2020) (1)
Enlightenment Reason, Cold War Rationality, and the Rule of Rules (2013) (1)
The Chemist as Philosopher: D. I. Mendeleev’s “The Unit” and “Worldview” (2018) (1)
Chapter 2. Shock (2009) (0)
7. The Unseasonable Grooviness of Immanuel Velikovsky (2019) (0)
Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media by Stefan Andriopoulos (review) (2014) (0)
A history of substance (2018) (0)
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History. By Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas with Jens H. Kuhn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 921. $55.00.) (2014) (0)
Joseph Bradley.Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society. xiv + 366 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. $55 (cloth). (2010) (0)
NUCLEAR MYTHOLOGY AND NUCLEAR USELESSNESS (2013) (0)
Silvan S. Schweber.Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. xiv + 412 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth). (2009) (0)
The Roots of Special Relativity : Science and Society (2013) (0)
Without Parallels?: Averting a Schweberian Dystopia (2007) (0)
Science, Democracy, and the Ironies of Pseudoscience (2014) (0)
Making special relativity (2001) (0)
Saving the Planet from Nuclear Weapons and the Human Mind (2013) (0)
World in a Matrix (2013) (0)
Chapter 6. Revolution (2009) (0)
8. Disintegration: Fighting Revolutions with Faith (2018) (0)
Einsteinian language: Max Talmey, Benjamin Lee Whorf and linguistic relativity (2022) (0)
A century of science boycotts (2022) (0)
Science, technology, and medicine (2015) (0)
The Rise of Nuclear Fear (2012) (0)
When Physics Became King (review) (2007) (0)
The Collapse of Cold War Rationality (2013) (0)
Chapter 3. Special (2015) (0)
Abstracts (2001) (0)
Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform. Ed. Loren Graham and Irina Dezhina. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiii, 193 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. Tables. $60.00, hard bound. $22.95, paper. (2009) (0)
Introduction: The Struggle over Cold War Rationality (2013) (0)
The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives (review) (2009) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2008) (0)
Epilogue: Cold War Rationality after the Cold War (2013) (0)
Making general relativity (2001) (0)
Hydrogen Oxygenovich: Crafting Russian as a language of science in the late nineteenth century 1 (2015) (0)
Summer books (2016) (0)
Relativists, Skepticism, and Waves (2007) (0)
7. Making Newtons: Romantic Journeys toward Genius (2018) (0)
Benjamin P. Greene. Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945–1963. (Stanford Nuclear Age). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiii, 358. $65.00 (2008) (0)
Marketing Russian History (2008) (0)
Copyrighted Material Introduction (2010) (0)
“The Situation” in the Cold War Behavioral Sciences (2013) (0)
Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media. By Stefan Andriopoulos. New York: Zone Books, 2013. 235 pages + 10 b/w illustrations. $28.95. (2014) (0)
Paul R. Josephson.Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989. ix + 342 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. $74.95 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Preface to the Paperback Edition (2015) (0)
Afterword: hidden beauty (2023) (0)
Stalin’s Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare. By Anthony Rimmington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+262. $45.00. (2021) (0)
A history of substance (2018) (0)
Bohr's Grand Battle (2007) (0)
1. Introduction: Hiroshima’s Legacies (2020) (0)
and the Birth of the (2013) (0)
Chapter 4. Miracle (2009) (0)
Responses and Reactions (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (review) (2006) (0)
The Consolidation of the Nuclear Age (2021) (0)
Reflexivity and the Russian Professoriate (2016) (0)
Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (review) (2009) (0)
Physical science and the language of war (2001) (0)
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (2010) (0)
Science and Pseudoscience (2020) (0)
The Bounded Rationality of Cold War Operations Research (2013) (0)
Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age (review) (2006) (0)
Eric R. Scerri.The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance.xxii + 346 pp., illus., figs., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. $35 (cloth). (2007) (0)
Chapter 5. Papacy (2009) (0)
N. I. Nevskaia (Editor/Translator).Istochniki po istorii astronomii Rossii XVIII v., vol. 1. 405 pp., illus., index. Saint Petersburg: Nauka, 2000. (2005) (0)
HOS Introduction : The languages of scientists (2015) (0)
When Physics Became King. By Iwan Rhys Morus (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005) 303 pp. $60.00 cloth $25.00 paper (2007) (0)
Klaus Hentschel, The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists, 1945–1949. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. vi+205. ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0. £25.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky (2011) (0)
Chapter 1. Endings (2009) (0)
Steven Seegel.Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire. xi + 368 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. $55 (cloth). (2013) (0)
Arduous and delicate task : Princess dashkova, the academy of sciences, and the taming of natural philosophy (2006) (0)
"Le Premier Cercle" : le Kruzhok de Heidelberg et la nationalisation de la chimie russe. “Running in Circles”: The Heidelberg Kruzhok and the Nationalization of Russian Chemistry (2006) (0)
Stephanie Cooke. In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. New York: Bloomsbury. 2009. Pp. 488. $27.00 (2010) (0)
History of Science, Medicine and Technology Colloquium Series (2013) (0)
Coda: On the Scholarly Literature (2015) (0)
Chapter 7. Beginnings (2009) (0)
The Trials of Arnošt K.The Dark Angel of Dialectical Materialism (2017) (0)
Thomas C. Owen. Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 275 pp. ISBN 0-674-01549-5, $49.95. (2006) (0)
The Hostile Appropriation of Herbert Spencer in Imperial Russia Chapter 1 “ What a Go-aHead People They Are ! ” : The Hostile Appropriation of Herbert Spencer in Imperial Russia (0)
2. Elements of the System: Building Periodicity and a Scientific Petersburg (2018) (0)
7. The Unseasonable Grooviness of Immanuel Velikovsky -Michael D. Gordin (2016) (0)
Science vs. Pseudoscience (2021) (0)
Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Daniel Todes (2016) (0)
When Social Networking Was Social (2020) (0)
Maria Bucur. Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. 288pp. Cloth $24.95. (2002) (0)
A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science (2017) (0)
Noah J. Efron.A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century. (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) xv + 149 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $26.95 (cloth). (2015) (0)
The Vibrant 18th Century (2016) (0)
Beyond the center: Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe and their histories. An interview with Professor Michael Gordin conducted by Jan Surman (2016) (0)
The world is square (2022) (0)
Gennady Gorelik.The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist’s Path to Freedom. WithAntonina W. Bouis.xviii + 406 pp., illus., figs., app., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. $47.50 (cloth). (2006) (0)
Focus: Linguistic Hegemony and the History of Science Introduction: Hegemonic Languages and Science (2017) (0)
Abbreviations Used in Notes (2009) (0)

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