Loren Graham
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Loren R. Graham (born June 29, 1933, in Hymera, Indiana) is an American historian of science, particularly science in Russia.
Career
He has taught and published at Indiana University, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, where he is currently a research associate. He was a participant in one of the first academic exchange programs between the United States and the Soviet Union, studying at Moscow University in 1960-61.
He wrote a popular book on Native American history (A Face in the Rock) and a memoir (Moscow Stories) which describes his youth in the United States and his adventures in Russia. He has also been a strong supporter of human rights and scholarship. He was a member of the board of trustees of the
For many years he has been a member of the Governing Council of the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education, which supports the combining of research and teaching in Russian universities and is financially supported by the
For many years he was a member of the board of trustees of the
In much of his work in the history of science, Graham has demonstrated the influence of social context on science, even its theoretical structure. For example, in his Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union (which was a finalist for a
In addition to writing on the history of scientific theories, Graham has written much on the organization of science in Russia and the Soviet Union, including a book on the early history of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party) and a more recent one on the situation of science in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union (Science in the New Russia; co-written with Irina Dezhina).
Education, awards and personal life
Graham earned his B.A. in chemical engineering at Purdue University and his M.A. and doctorate degree in history at Columbia University.[1]
In 1996 he received the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society and in 2000 he received the Follo Award of the Michigan Historical Society for his contributions to Michigan history.[citation needed]
Graham is a member of a number of honorary societies, both American and foreign, including the American Philosophical Society,[2] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Natural Science. His books have been published in English, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Japanese, Greek, Persian, Korean and Chinese. In 2012, he was awarded a medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in Moscow for "contributions to the history of science".[citation needed]
Personal life
Graham's wife Patricia Graham is a prominent historian of education and a former dean at Harvard University.[citation needed]
Works
- Major books
- Moscow in May 1963: Education and Cybernetics (with Oliver Caldwell), 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, ;
- Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories (edited with Wolf Lepenies and Peter Weingart), Reidel, 1983
- Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia, by Alexander Bogdanov (edited with Richard Stites), Indiana University Press, 1984
- Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union, Columbia University Press, 1987
- Science and the Soviet Social Order (edited), Harvard University Press, 1990
- The Ghost of the Executed Engineer, Harvard University Press, 1993
- A Face in the Rock: the Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa], University of California, 1995 ISBN 978-0-520-21567-2.
- What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?, Stanford University Press, 1998
- Moscow Stories, Indiana University Press, 2006 ISBN 0253347165
- Grand Island and its Families (with Katherine Geffine Carlson) GIA, 2007
- Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform (with Irina Dezhina), Indiana University Press, 2008
- Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity, with Jean-Michel Kantor Harvard University Press, 2009
- Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete? MIT Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0-262-01979-8
- Death at the Lighthouse: A Grand Island Riddle, Arbutus Press, 2013 ISBN 193392652X
- Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia, Harvard University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780674089051
- Articles
- "What the Reappraisal of Soviet Russia's Top Agricultural Mastermind Says About Putin's Russia" Foreign Affairs (2016)
Sources
Biographical material and professional details for Loren Graham may be found in:
- Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor, 'A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics', ISIS 97 (2006), pp 56–74. See 'Notes on Contributors' published in the same issue.
- Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor, 'Russian Religious Mystics and French Rationalists: Mathematics, 1900—1930', Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, New Series 1 (175), no. 4 (2007), pp. 44–52.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology bio (with photo)
References
- ^ Science historian Loren Graham profile, wupa.wustl.edu; accessed May 24, 2017.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
- PMID 17731864.