Name Gennady Gorelik | ||
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Education Russian Academy of Sciences (1979) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The World of Andrei Sakharov, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Matvei Petrovich Bronstein |
Gennady Gorelik (born 1948, Lviv) is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th-century Russian physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.

In his biography of Sakharov, he provides the documentary explanation of Sakharov's metamorphosis from a secret father of the Soviet H-bomb to most prominent advocate of human rights in the Soviet Union.
In 1995, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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