Loren Graham

Loren Raymond Graham ( born June 29, 1933, Himera, Indiana) is an American historian of science, which deals in particular with the Russian ( Soviet ) history of science.

Graham graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1955 and from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in history in 1964. Starting in 1963, he was Assistant Professor of History of Science at Indiana University, and from 1966 Associate Professor and 1972 Professor of History at Columbia University. From 1978 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1985 at Harvard University.

In 1996 he received the George Sarton Medal. In 1986 he became an honorary doctorate from Purdue University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1969/70 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Rockefeller. He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2000 he received the Follo Award of the Michigan Historical Society.

Loren Graham is since 1955 with Patricia Graham ( former dean at Harvard, where Professor of the History of Education) married and has one daughter. It has a lighthouse on an island in Lake Superior as a summer house, where he voluntarily worked for the Coast Guard and participated in rescue operations for seafarers. He also wrote books on the history of Chippewa Indians Grand Iceland in Lake Superior.

Writings

  • Oliver Caldwell: Moscow in May 1963: Education and Cybernetics, Washington, 1964
  • The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932, Princeton University Press, 1967
  • Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, Alfred Knopf, 1972
  • Between Science and Values, Columbia University Press, 1981
  • Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History, Cambridge University Press, 1993
  • Publisher with Lepenies, Peter Weingart Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories, Reidel, 1983
  • Publisher Richard Stites by Alexander Bogdanov Red Star. The First Bolshevik Utopia, Indiana University Press, 1984
  • Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union, Columbia University Press, 1987
  • As Publisher: Science and the Soviet Social Order, Harvard University Press, 1990
  • The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union, Harvard University Press, 1993
  • The Face in the Rock: the Tale of a Grand Iceland Chippewa, University of California, 1995, 1998
  • What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?, Stanford University Press, 1998
  • Moscow Stories, Indiana University Press, 2006
  • Katherine Geffine Carlson: Grand Iceland and Its Families, GIA, 2007
  • Irina Dezhina Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform, Indiana University Press, 2008
  • With Jean -Michel Kantor Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity, Harvard University Press, 2009 ( comparison of access French and Russian mathematician - the Moscow School of Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, Dmitry Yegorov - in real analysis at the beginning of 20. century )
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