CURRICULUM VITAE
August 2009
Gennady Gorelik
Center for Philosophy and History of
Science, Boston University
http://people.bu.edu/gorelik/
E-mail: gorelik@bu.edu
Positions
Grants/Fellowships
Education
Publications
1994 - Present
Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of
Science, Boston University
1993 - 94
Fellow, the Dibner Institute for
the History of Science & Technology, MIT
1989 - 93
Senior Research Fellow, the Institute for the History of
Science & Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2000, 1998, 1994 Grant-in-aid from
the American Institute of Physics
2000, 1998, 1996 IREX short-term Travel Grant
1995 Guggenheim Fellowship
1994 Grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Program on Peace and International
Cooperation
1993 Dibner Fellowship
Ph.D. in history of science 1979
Institute for the History of Science & Technology,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
M.S. in physics 1972
Department of Physics, Moscow University
The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives // Physics in Perspective, Vol 11, N 2 / June, 2009, p. 169-197
Sovetskaya zhizn' L'va Landau [The Soviet Life of Lev Landau], Moscow: Vagrius, 2008.
Andrei Sakharov // New dictionary of scientific biography / Noretta Koertge, ed. Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson Gale, 2008.
"Edward Teller and realities of illusory worlds," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, March 19, 2007
"[Science and life at the Dawn of cGh-physics]," Seminar on Quantum Gravity and Cosmology dedicated to the 100th birthday of Matvei Bronstein (St.Petersburg, Nov 30 - Dec 2 2006)
"Secret Physics and Scientific Ethics," Institute for History of Science & Technology, Moscow, June 1, 2006
"[Lydia Chukovskaya and Matvei Bronstein]," Archangelsk Regional Academic Library, Archangelsk, May 22, 2006
"A Russian-American Perspective on the Fathers of the H-Bombs," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, April 24, 2006
Matvei Bronstein and quantum gravity: 70th anniversary of the unsolved problem // Physics-Uspekhi 2005, vol 48, no 10 (pdf)
Andrei Sakharov// Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. C. Mitcham. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2005. 406 pp. (with Antonina W. Bouis)
Matvei BRONSTEIN: born 1906, arrested 1937, executed 1938
Andrei SAKHAROV: Photo-Chronology
Andrei SAKHAROV: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights
The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2005. 406 pp. (with Antonina W. Bouis)
[Andrei Sakharov: Science and Freedom] Andrei Sakharov: Nauka i Svoboda. Revised 2nd edition. Moscow: Vagrius, 2004. 608 pp.
'Meine antisowjetische Taetigkeit...'. Russische Physiker unter Stalin. Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1995. 300 p.
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties. Basel-Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1994. 200 pp. (With V. Frenkel)
[Dimensionality of Space: historical and methodological analysis]. Razmernost prostranstva: istoriko-metodologicheskiy analiz. Moscow University Press, 1983. 216 pp.
[Why is Space Three-dimensional?] Pochemu prostranstvo trekhmerno? Moscow: Nauka, 1982. 167 pp.
Matvei Bronstein and quantum gravity: 70th anniversary of the unsolved problem // Physics-Uspekhi 2005, vol 48, no 10.
The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives // Physics in Perspective, Vol 11, N 2 / June, 2009, p. 169-197.
Andrei Sakharov// Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. C. Mitcham. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
Stirrings of Religion in the Soviet H-bomb Lab // Center for History of Physics Newsletter, AIP, Spring 2003
Andrei Sakharov and Edward Teller // The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Ed. J. L. Heilbron. Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Problem of Conservation Laws and the Poincare Quasigroup in General Relativity// Einstein Studies in Russia. [Einstein Studies, Vol. 10.] Eds. Yu. Balashov, V. Vizgin. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 2002. P. 17-43.
Hermann Weyl and Large Numbers in Relativistic Cosmology // Einstein Studies in Russia. [Einstein Studies, Vol. 10.] Eds. Yu. Balashov, V. Vizgin. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 2002. P. 91-106.
The Metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov // Scientific American, 1999, March, p.98-101
The Top Secret life of Lev Landau // Scientific American, 1997, August, p.72-77.
Lev Landau, prosocialist prisoner of the Soviet state // Physics Today, 1995, May, p. 11-15.
Vladimir Fock: Philosophy of Gravity and Gravity of Philosophy // The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity. [Einstein Studies, Vol.5] Eds. J.Earman, M.Janssen, J.D.Norton. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1993. P.308-331.
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: Birkhaeuser, 1992. P.364-379.
The reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia // The Comparative reception of relativity. Edited by Thomas F. Glick. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel, 1987. P.256-326 (with V.P.Vizgin).
"Secret Physics and Scientific Ethics," Institute for History of Science & Technology, Moscow, June 1, 2006
"Lydia Chukovskaya and Matvei Bronstein," Archangelsk Regional Academic Library, Archangelsk, May 22, 2006
"A Russian-American Perspective on the Fathers of the H-Bombs," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, April 24, 2006
"Circulating Top-Secret Knowledge for the history of H-bomb," 5th British-North American Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 7, 2004
"The Best Defense, or the Worst one? Physics and politics in the history of Russian ABM program," the Annual Meeting of History of Science Society, Cambridge, MA, November 21, 2003
"A Russian Perspective on the Father of the American H-Bomb," Colloquium on the History of Science & Technology at the University of Minnesota, April 19, 2002
"The best defense or the worst one: ABM as the problem and emblem of the century," Institute for History of Science & Technology, Moscow, March 28, 2002
"Soviet life of Lev Landau: phase transition of the 1937," P.L.Kapitsa Institute of Physical Problems, Moscow, Nov 22, 2001
"Edward Teller and Lev Landau: Theoretical Physicists in the Time of Cold Nuclear War," P.L.Kapitsa Institute of Physical Problems, Moscow, October 25, 2001
"Two Parallels Among Three Perpendiculars: Andrei Sakharov, Edward Teller, and Robert Oppenheimer," Institute for History of Science & Technology, Moscow, May 31, 2001
"Andrei Sakharov: Theoretical Physics and Practical Humanics," Commemorative Ceremony on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the death of Andrei Sakharov, European Parliament, Strasbourg, December 14, 1999
"Authority of Physics in the Authoritarian State," Boston Colloquium "Science Without Freedom in the Twentieth Century", Boston University, May 9-10, 1999
"Andrei Sakharov: from Russian Theoretical Physics to International Practical Humanics," International conference "Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives," University of California, Berkeley, January 22-25, 1998
"Lebedev Physical Institute and Soviet thermonuclear project," International Symposium "History of the Soviet Atomic Project", Dubna, Russia, May 14, 1996
"Igor Tamm and Lev Landau, the Theoretical Physicists in Soviet Practice," Harvard University, December 8, 1995; and the Annual Meeting of History of Science Society, Minneapolis, MN, October 27, 1995;
"How Sakharov invented the Soviet H-bombs," Rossendorf Center for Nuclear Physics, Dresden, March 27, 1995
"Looking Back at the History of Sakharov's H-bomb," Michigan State University, January 24, 1995
"Andrei Sakharov, the Fundamental Physicist and Fundamental Politician," Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2, 1994
"Philosophical background of Sakharov's H-bomb," Annual Meeting of HSS, New Orleans, October 14, 1994, and the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science. January 1994
"Looking Back at the History of Soviet A- and H-bombs," Smithsonian workshop on the Cold War. May 11, 1994
"Humanitarian Physicist under Inhumane Circumstances (Andrei Sakharov in his generation of Soviet physics)," Workshop on Science and Political Authority, MIT, Cambridge (MA), May 1992
"Vladimir Fock: Philosophy of Gravity and Gravity of Philosophy," Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of General Relativity, University of Pittsburgh, June 1991
Judging the stars of Stalin's science (Alexei B Kojevnikov. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. Imperial College Press 2004) // PHYSICS WORLD, Novenber 2005.
Zeldovich: Reminiscences. Ed. R. A. Sunyaev. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. // PHYSICS TODAY, August 2005.
Richard Lourie. Sakharov: A Biography. Brandeis University Press 2002 // PHYSICS WORLD, August 2002.
Richard F. Mould. Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2000. // PHYSICS TODAY, August 2001, p. 51-52.
Laurie M. Brown; Helmut Rechenberg. The Origin of the Concept of Nuclear Forces. Bristol, England /Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1996. // ISIS, 1998, 89: 4, p.751; ÂÈÅÒ 2000, ¹ 2, ñ.181.
David Holloway. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. // THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 1996, 18: 2, p.458-460.
Richard Rhodes. Dark Sun. The making of the hydrogen bomb. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995. // PHYSICS TODAY, January 1996, p.61-62; August 1996, p.84.