Gennady Gorelik
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Gennady Yefimovich Gorelik (Russian: Геннадий Ефимович Горелик; born 1948) is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. Born in Lviv and 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 Soviet 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.[1]
In 1995, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2]
