Michael Riordan (born 3 December 1946) is an American physicist, science historian and author.
Riordan earned his doctorate from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 1973. He worked at the
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.
The University of Roc ...
, then moved to the
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford Univers ...
and concurrently held an adjunct professorship at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
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. While associated with SLAC, Riordan was elected a fellow of the
American Physical Society
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and received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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in 1999. The
American Institute of Physics
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honored Riordan with the 2002
Andrew Gemant Award
The Andrew Gemant Award is a prize awarded by the American Institute of Physics to a person who has made substantial cultural, artistic, or humanistic contributions to physics. The award is named after Andrew Gemant, a pioneer in materials scie ...
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Selected publications
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*Hoddeson, Lillian; Brown, Laurie; Riordan, Michael; Dresden, Max, eds. (1997). T''he Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s''. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521570824.
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[Reviews of ''The Hunting of the Quark'' include:
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*] Revised and updated electronic edition published in 2018 by Plunkett Lake Press.
*Anderson, Bruce; Riordan, Michael (1977). ''The Solar Home Book: Heating, Cooling and Designing with the Sun.'' Cheshire Books. ISBN 0917352010
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References
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
21st-century American male writers
Fellows of the American Physical Society
20th-century American male writers
1946 births
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American physicists
Particle physicists
Living people
American historians of science
Historians of physics
21st-century American historians
20th-century American historians