Michael D Gordin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 389133 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael D Gordin |
| NOMBRES | Michael D |
| APELLIDO | Gordin |
| FIRMA | GORDIN M D |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5853-7503 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Lancelot Hogben’s hybrid tongues
Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975), a peripatetic and prolific mathematical geneticist and science populariser, occupies a special niche in the history of scientific communication and translation. Not only was he a trenchant observer of the increasing dominance of Global English in scientific publications, he also leveraged his command of the cosmopolitan scientific lexicon to offer an alternative: a constructed language he called ‘Interglossa’. His ext…
Einstein, armes nucléaires et pacifisme
Afterword
People love a secret, as long as they are in on it. One might even argue that historians are more attracted to secrecy than the average scholar, or average individual, in that the tools we have for unearthing documentation from the past regularly trawl up long-dormant secrets. At one time, someone may have died to preserve this secret; for me, it is lying accessible in an archive. The challenge is not reading the secret – it is crafting an argume…
Einsteinian language
This paper explores the significant - albeit little-known - impact that physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity had on the development of the science of linguistics. Both Max Talmey, a physician who played a key role in the development of early twentieth-century constructed-language movements, and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who is closely associated with the notion of 'linguistic relativity', drew on their understanding of relativity to develop…
The Age of Hiroshima
The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation
This paper takes three distinct passes through the history of Machine Translation (MT) in the Soviet Union, which is typically understood as concentrating in a single boom period that lasted from roughly 1955 to 1965. In both the Soviet Union and the United States—in explicit competition with each other—there was a tremendous wave of investment in adapting computers to nonnumerical tasks that has only recently drawn the attention of historians, p…
Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II
The Other Demarcation Problem
Previous articleNext article FreeSpecial Section: Second LookThe Other Demarcation ProblemMichael D. GordinMichael D. GordinPrinceton University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSuperstition is an awkward category for historians of science, and they do not typically use it. Scientists, on t…
A Well-Ordered Thing
Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834–1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a multifaceted portrait of his life for the first time. As Michael Gordin reveals, Mendeleev was not only a luminary in the history of science, he was also an astonishingly wide-ranging political and cultu…
A Well-Ordered Thing
Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834–1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. This book is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a multifaceted portrait of his life for the first time. As the book reveals, Mendeleev was not only a luminary in the history of science, he was also an astonishingly wide-ranging political and cultural figure. From …
A Well-Ordered Thing
Well-Ordered Thing
Lysenko Unemployed
The history of the so-called Lysenko affair—the domination of Soviet biology by the agronomist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko and the state-sanctioned proscription of genetics from 1948 to 1965—has for decades generated widespread political and historical interest as a textbook example of political distortion of science. Building on archival sources from the United States and Russia, this essay resituates the “ending” of this episode within the contex…
Introduction
Science has historically been a multilingual enterprise, yet the present day appears to belie this generalization. It is difficult to deny the observation that the natural sciences today have converged to a state where a particular form of English—variously termed "Global English," "International English," or "English as a Lingua Franca"—serves as the almost universal language of interaction among scientific practitioners. The history of science …
Poza centrum
Co wyróżnia nauki w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej? Z jakimi problemami konfrontują się historycy nauki piszący o tym regionie? Czy nauka ta różni się od nauki uprawianej w centrach i w jakim zakresie? Jak bardzo imperialna jest nauka reprezentantów nacji dominujących i niedominujących? To tylko niektóre tematy poruszone w rozmowie z Michaelem Gordinem z Princeton University, jednym z wiodących historyków nauki.
Beyond the center
Co wyróżnia nauki w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej? Z jakimi problemami konfrontują się historycy nauki piszący o tym regionie? Czy nauka ta różni się od nauki uprawianej w centrach i w jakim zakresie? Jak bardzo imperialna jest nauka reprezentantów nacji dominujących i niedominujących? To tylko niektóre tematy poruszone w rozmowie z Michaelem Gordinem z Princeton University, jednym z wiodących historyków nauki.
Scientific Babel
Journal Article Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done before and after Global English Get access By Michael D. Gordin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 415 pp. $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 165–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw030 Published: 01 June 2016
Scientific Babel
Hydrogen Oxygenovich
Until the 1860s, science in Russia was principally conducted in Latin, French, and German. In the years leading up to and following the creation of the Russian Chemical Society in 1868, Russian chemists - treated in this article as both a representative sample of Russian scientists and also practitioners of the flagship science of the period - debated both the merits of developing a nomenclature that would enable Russian to "hold" modern inorgani…
Introduction
Much of the scholarship in the history of science has undervalued the significance of the debates around language choice and language use. After surveying various historiographical trends characterizing the relationship of science to language, this introduction explores the role of language-choice in nation-building, education, publication and transnational exchanges. It concludes with a brief summary of the four case studies in this special issu…
Evidence and the Instability of Biology
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
Translating Textbooks
Using the cases of three Russian chemistry textbooks from the 1860s--authored by Freidrich Beilstein, A. M. Butlerov, and D. I. Mendeleev--this essay analyzes their contemporary translation into German and the implications of their divergent histories for scholars' understanding of the processes of credit accrual and the choices of languages of science
Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race
Utopia/Dystopia
Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time 1 PART ONE: ANIMA CHAPTER 1: Fredric Jameson Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future 21 CHAPTER 2: Jennifer Wenzel Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier 45 CHAPTER 3: Dipesh Chakrabarty Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73 CHAPTER 4: Luise White The Utopia of Working Ph…
Scientific Babel
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
The Importation of Being Earnest
Recent studies in the history of early modern science, using examples from Western Europe, have placed great emphasis on the role etiquette protocols played as conditions of possibility for the establishment of scientific societies. The Russian case provides a unique counterpoint to these claims, since in 1725 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was imported ready-made from the Berlin model proposed to Peter the Great by Leibniz several years …
The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation
This paper takes three distinct passes through the history of Machine Translation (MT) in the Soviet Union, which is typically understood as concentrating in a single boom period that lasted from roughly 1955 to 1965. In both the Soviet Union and the United States—in explicit competition with each other—there was a tremendous wave of investment in adapting computers to nonnumerical tasks that has only recently drawn the attention of historians, p…
Introduction
Science has historically been a multilingual enterprise, yet the present day appears to belie this generalization. It is difficult to deny the observation that the natural sciences today have converged to a state where a particular form of English—variously termed "Global English," "International English," or "English as a Lingua Franca"—serves as the almost universal language of interaction among scientific practitioners. The history of science …
Thinking Systematically
Judging from the 2001 promotional pamphlet of the Operations Research Center at MIT, competence in systems analysis is an essential component in the training of the present-day manager. The ubiquity of this attitude toward systems thinking demands an understanding of the origins and importance of this phenomenon. As historians of science approaching this field from the outside, we see great promise in the historiographical questions that the stud…
Einsteinian language
This paper explores the significant - albeit little-known - impact that physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity had on the development of the science of linguistics. Both Max Talmey, a physician who played a key role in the development of early twentieth-century constructed-language movements, and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who is closely associated with the notion of 'linguistic relativity', drew on their understanding of relativity to develop…
Translating Textbooks
Using the cases of three Russian chemistry textbooks from the 1860s--authored by Freidrich Beilstein, A. M. Butlerov, and D. I. Mendeleev--this essay analyzes their contemporary translation into German and the implications of their divergent histories for scholars' understanding of the processes of credit accrual and the choices of languages of science
Loose and Baggy Spirits
In his 1876Writer's Diary, novelist Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii wrote a series of three journalistic articles parodying both the contemporary movement of modern spiritualism and its principal critic in St. Petersburg, noted chemist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev. This article explores Dostoevskii's views on spiritualism and examines the rhetorical strategy he developed to help persuade Russians away from what he perceived as a dangerous mystical …
The Other Demarcation Problem
Previous articleNext article FreeSpecial Section: Second LookThe Other Demarcation ProblemMichael D. GordinMichael D. GordinPrinceton University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSuperstition is an awkward category for historians of science, and they do not typically use it. Scientists, on t…
Scientific Babel
Journal Article Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done before and after Global English Get access By Michael D. Gordin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 415 pp. $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 165–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw030 Published: 01 June 2016
The Heidelberg Circle
The success of the "second importation" of science to Russia during the Great Reforms of the 1860s is illustrated by examining the extended postdoctoral study of chemists in Heidelberg. While there, they adapted the Russian intelligentsia institution of the "circle," or kruzhok, to cope with their alienation from the German culture they were confronting. Upon their return to Russia, they felt the lack of the communicative network they had establi…
Le Premier Cercle
"Le Premier Cercle"
Au cours des années 1860 et 1870, la chimie russe fut secouée par une série de vives polémiques nationalistes, accusant les chimistes allemands de chauvinisme, de partialité, et de piller les découvertes de chimistes russes. Ces attaques, émanant de membres éminents de la Société chimique russe (fondée en 1868), furent au cœur de la contribution russe aux thèses les plus anciennes et les plus affirmées selon lesquelles la connaissance scientifiqu…
The Importation of Being Earnest
Recent studies in the history of early modern science, using examples from Western Europe, have placed great emphasis on the role etiquette protocols played as conditions of possibility for the establishment of scientific societies. The Russian case provides a unique counterpoint to these claims, since in 1725 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences was imported ready-made from the Berlin model proposed to Peter the Great by Leibniz several years …
Loose and Baggy Spirits
In his 1876Writer's Diary, novelist Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii wrote a series of three journalistic articles parodying both the contemporary movement of modern spiritualism and its principal critic in St. Petersburg, noted chemist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev. This article explores Dostoevskii's views on spiritualism and examines the rhetorical strategy he developed to help persuade Russians away from what he perceived as a dangerous mystical …
Playing dice with Einstein
Thinking Systematically
Judging from the 2001 promotional pamphlet of the Operations Research Center at MIT, competence in systems analysis is an essential component in the training of the present-day manager. The ubiquity of this attitude toward systems thinking demands an understanding of the origins and importance of this phenomenon. As historians of science approaching this field from the outside, we see great promise in the historiographical questions that the stud…
"A Modernization of "Peerless Homogeneity
Past studies of technical choice in military modernization have tended to assume both a unitary view of "technological determinism" and a concept of "modernization" in the singular. Using the case of chemist D. I. Mendeleev's development of a Russian variant of smokeless gunpowder in the 1890s, this article argues for a vision of late-imperial Russia as a site where several different modernizations confronted each other, a debate that was framed …
The Princess & the Patriot
Sue Ann Prince, Baruch S. Blumberg, Michael D. Gordin, Michelle Lamarche Marrese, Marcus C. Levitt, Karen Duval, Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff, Svetlana Romanova Dolgova, Anthony Cross, Elena Igorevna Stolbova, The Princess & the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 96, No. 1 (2006), pp. I-V, VII-XIII, XV-XIX, 1, 3-67, 69, 71-77, 79-129
Le Premier Cercle
"Le Premier Cercle"
Au cours des années 1860 et 1870, la chimie russe fut secouée par une série de vives polémiques nationalistes, accusant les chimistes allemands de chauvinisme, de partialité, et de piller les découvertes de chimistes russes. Ces attaques, émanant de membres éminents de la Société chimique russe (fondée en 1868), furent au cœur de la contribution russe aux thèses les plus anciennes et les plus affirmées selon lesquelles la connaissance scientifiqu…
A Splintered Function
The Heidelberg Circle
The success of the "second importation" of science to Russia during the Great Reforms of the 1860s is illustrated by examining the extended postdoctoral study of chemists in Heidelberg. While there, they adapted the Russian intelligentsia institution of the "circle," or kruzhok, to cope with their alienation from the German culture they were confronting. Upon their return to Russia, they felt the lack of the communicative network they had establi…
Introduction
The concept of "intelligentsia" has had a long life both as an actors' category and as a tool of historical analysis to understand the role of the educated elite in Russia and the Soviet Union. For a variety of reasons, this term has not achieved much prominence in exploring the assimilation of science and technology into Russian culture. This essay examines the term's convoluted historiography and makes a case for the utility of its revival--und…
Points Critical
This essay compares the way in which Russia and Ireland have defined themselves since the mid‐nineteenth century as scientific nations (or not) by following the careers of D. I. Mendeleev (1834–1907) and Thomas Andrews (1813–85), both of whom were involved in the discovery of the “critical point” boundary between liquids and gases. Mendeleev and Andrews deployed their critical‐point research in a similar fashion to integrate science into the nati…
Utopia/Dystopia
Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time 1 PART ONE: ANIMA CHAPTER 1: Fredric Jameson Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future 21 CHAPTER 2: Jennifer Wenzel Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier 45 CHAPTER 3: Dipesh Chakrabarty Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India 73 CHAPTER 4: Luise White The Utopia of Working Ph…
Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time
Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race
Translating Textbooks
Using the cases of three Russian chemistry textbooks from the 1860s--authored by Freidrich Beilstein, A. M. Butlerov, and D. I. Mendeleev--this essay analyzes their contemporary translation into German and the implications of their divergent histories for scholars' understanding of the processes of credit accrual and the choices of languages of science
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
Evidence and the Instability of Biology
Scientific Babel
Hydrogen Oxygenovich
Until the 1860s, science in Russia was principally conducted in Latin, French, and German. In the years leading up to and following the creation of the Russian Chemical Society in 1868, Russian chemists - treated in this article as both a representative sample of Russian scientists and also practitioners of the flagship science of the period - debated both the merits of developing a nomenclature that would enable Russian to "hold" modern inorgani…
Introduction
Much of the scholarship in the history of science has undervalued the significance of the debates around language choice and language use. After surveying various historiographical trends characterizing the relationship of science to language, this introduction explores the role of language-choice in nation-building, education, publication and transnational exchanges. It concludes with a brief summary of the four case studies in this special issu…
Poza centrum
Co wyróżnia nauki w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej? Z jakimi problemami konfrontują się historycy nauki piszący o tym regionie? Czy nauka ta różni się od nauki uprawianej w centrach i w jakim zakresie? Jak bardzo imperialna jest nauka reprezentantów nacji dominujących i niedominujących? To tylko niektóre tematy poruszone w rozmowie z Michaelem Gordinem z Princeton University, jednym z wiodących historyków nauki.
Beyond the center
Co wyróżnia nauki w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej? Z jakimi problemami konfrontują się historycy nauki piszący o tym regionie? Czy nauka ta różni się od nauki uprawianej w centrach i w jakim zakresie? Jak bardzo imperialna jest nauka reprezentantów nacji dominujących i niedominujących? To tylko niektóre tematy poruszone w rozmowie z Michaelem Gordinem z Princeton University, jednym z wiodących historyków nauki.
Scientific Babel
Journal Article Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done before and after Global English Get access By Michael D. Gordin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 415 pp. $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 165–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw030 Published: 01 June 2016
Introduction
Science has historically been a multilingual enterprise, yet the present day appears to belie this generalization. It is difficult to deny the observation that the natural sciences today have converged to a state where a particular form of English—variously termed "Global English," "International English," or "English as a Lingua Franca"—serves as the almost universal language of interaction among scientific practitioners. The history of science …
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