Michael Gordin

From the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons. Hendrik Lorentz, Leiden University, seated between Madame Curie and Einstein, chaired the conference.

How did English become the language of science?

October 6, 2014Culture

It’s Nobel Prize season. While scientists throughout the world will be awarded this prestigious prize, there’s a good chance all of their research was written up in English. Michael Gordin, a professor of the history of science at Princeton, wrote a new book, “Scientific Babel” that explores the intersection of the history of language and science.