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 The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

. While associated with SLAC, Riordan was elected a fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

and received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 1999. The

American Institute of Physics The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corpora ...

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 ...

Selected publications

* * *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. * *Reviews of ''The Hunting of the Quark'' include: * * 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 09173520107.

References

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