Loren Raymond Graham

Loren R. Graham is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earlier, he taught at Indiana University from 1963 to 1966 and at Columbia University from 1966 to 1978. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is a former trustee of George Soros's International Science Foundation (which supported Russian scientists after the collapse of the Soviet Union) and the European University at St. Petersburg. He is a former member of the Governing Council of the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education, and currently an advisory council member of the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation. Graham is an Executive Committee member of the Davis Center for Russian and Central Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He has received Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller fellowships.Graham’s research concerns the history of science and the study of contemporary science and technology in Russia. Graham has often emphasized the significant influence of social context on science in his work on the history of science, for example, the impact Marxism had on science in the Soviet Union. He has also written about the organization of science in Russia in The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party (Princeton, 1967) and Science in the New Russia (Indiana, 2008). His most recent book is Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia (Harvard University Press, 2016). In 2012 he was awarded the medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences "for contributions to the history of science," and he also received the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society in 1996.After receiving his B.A. in chemical engineering at Purdue University, Graham went on to Columbia University to receive his M.A. and doctorate degree in history. Graham received a medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2012 for his “contributions to the history of science.”