Michael D Gordin
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
Michael D Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University in New Jersey. His books include Einstein in Bohemia (2020) and On the Fringe (2021).
Written by Michael D Gordin
essayHistory of science
Fringe theories stack
Believe in the Loch Ness monster and you’re more likely to believe the Apollo missions were fake. How do weird beliefs work?
Michael D Gordin
essayRace and ethnicity
Identifying Einstein
For Albert Einstein, being Jewish and German were not questions of identity but rather mutable matters of identification
Michael D Gordin
ideaHistory of science
Zhores Medvedev and the battle for truth in Soviet science
Michael D Gordin
essayLanguage and linguistics
Absolute English
Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen – and at what cost?
Michael D Gordin