Loren Graham holds a joint appointment as a professor of the history of science at both M.I.T. and Harvard University. He specializes in the history of scientific thought in the Soviet Union, and has written numerous books on the subject. These books include Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union,which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Science and the Soviet Social Order, The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union,listed as one of the New York Times "Notable Books of 1993," and The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932. Graham's other books include The Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa and Between Science and Values.
Graham is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Institute for Advanced Studies as well as having been named a Danforth Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society in 1996, and is also a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Russian Academy of the Humanitarian Sciences.
He earned his bachelor's degree "with distinction" in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1955 and his master's and doctorate degrees in history from Columbia University in 1960 and 1964 respectively. He also studied for two years at Moscow State University in the USSR during 1960-61. He was named a Doctor of Letters honoris causaby Purdue University in 1986.
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