Date of Birth
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1948
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Place of Birth
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Lviv
(Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
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Nationality
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Russia, United States of America
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Also know as
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Gennady E. Gorelik, Gorelik, Gennady E., Gennady Gorelik Efimovich, Gennadij Efimovič
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Gennady Gorelik 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, and Lev Landau.
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.
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