Gennady Gorelik (born 1948,

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...

) 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 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...

, and

Lev Landau Lev Davidovich Landau (russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani physicist of Jewish descent who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. His ac ...

. 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.

Selected publications

* Размерность пространства: историко-методологический анализ imensionality of Space: historical and methodological analysis Moscow, 1983 * First Steps of Quantum Gravity and the Planck Values, Studies in the history of general relativity. instein Studies. Vol.3 Eds. Jean Eisenstaedt, A.J. Kox., Boston, (1992) p. 364-379 * Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and the Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties (1994), with Viktor Ya. Freckle; translated by Valentina M. Levina * The Top Secret life of Lev Landau. Scientific American, 1997, August * The Metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov. Scientific American, 1999, March * The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom (2005)

* Matvei Bronstein and quantum gravity: 70th anniversary of the unsolved problem // Physics-Uspekhi 2005, vol 48, no 10, pp. 1039–1053 * Советская жизнь Льва Ландау The Soviet Life of Lev Landau. Moscow, 2008 * The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives // Physics in Perspective, Vol 11, N 2 / June, 2009, p. 169-19

* A Galilean Answer to the Needham Question // Philosophia Scientiæ 2017, 21(1), 93–11

---- * Web exhibit "Andrei SAKHAROV: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights" at American Institute of Physic

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