Gennady Gorelik is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University.
He graduated from the Moscow University as a theoretical physicist, a few years later switched to history of physics.
He published books and articles on problems of dimensionality of space and quantum gravity as well as biographies of Russian theoretical physicists: Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.