Alexei B. KOJEVNIKOV
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada
Email: a.nikov@ubc.ca
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=x6-c9lIAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1666-1669
Scopus Author ID: 6603643934
Web of Science ResearcherID: K-9084-2017
eLIBRARY AuthorID: 346026
Profile in ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexei-Kojevnikov
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Professor of Department of History at UBC
Research interests:
Soviet, Russian, and Eurasian History; Science, Society, and Culture; History of Modern Science, especially Exact Sciences; International Nuclear History and the Cold War
Membership in scientific associations:
- Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS)
- History of Science Society (HSS)
- Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
- Russian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (ROIFN)
Membership in the editorial boards of other journals:
- “American Journal of Physics”, editorial board member
- “Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência”, member of the international Editorial Council
Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:
- Olival Freire Jr, G.Bacciagaluppi, O.Darrigol, T.Hartz, C.Joas, A.Kojevnikov, O.Pessoa eds. Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations. NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Quantum Historiography and Cultural History, in: Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 887-908.
- Niels Bohr, Rockefeller Postdocs, and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics. Interview, Stimul: The Russian Journal for Innovation (October 2021). (in Russian)
- Funny Origins of the Big Bang Theory, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2021, no. 51, pp. 87-137. (with Bagdonas, A.)
- Convergence in Cold War Physics: Coinventing the Maser in the Postwar Soviet Union, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2019, no. 42, pp. 375-399. (with C.P. da Silva Neto)
- The Copenhagen Network: The Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective. Berlin: Springer, 2020.
- Cultural Materiel of the Big Bang Theory, Stimul: The Russian Journal for Innovation (September 2019). (in Russian)
- Great Science in the Soviet Era. Beijing: China Science and Technology Press, 2019. (in Chinese)
- Meritocracy, Technocracy, Revolution: The Moments of Engineering Power, Interview, Stimul: The Russian Journal for Innovation (January 2018). (in Russian)
- La investigación soviética durante la Guerra Fría, Investigación y ciencia, 2014, Número 451, pp. 40-46.
- Science as Co-Producer of Soviet Polity, Historia Scientiarum, 2013, no. 22, pp. 161-180.
- Sowjetische Forschung im Kalten Krieg, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 2012, no. 6, pp. 66-73.
- Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov” (essay review), Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2012, no. 13, pp. 243-250.
Contact information:
1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
1-604-827-3561
Email: a.nikov@ubc.ca