Rate My Professor Michael Gordin

Gordin has been recognized with numerous honors, including the 2020 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize from the History of Science Society, election to the Leopoldina in 2019, a Wilson Center Fellowship in 2019-2020, National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships in 2011, and National Science Foundation support. Among his key publications are A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (Basic Books, 2004; revised Princeton University Press, 2019), Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Princeton University Press, 2007), Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Einstein in Bohemia (Princeton University Press, 2020), and On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has chaired the editorial board of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2014-2019) and served on the boards of Princeton University Press and several journals. Gordin's current research explores the history of global science after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.