Adam Ulam
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Adam Ulam
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April 8, 1922 Lwów, Poland |
| Died | March 28, 2000 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Sovietologist, author and historian |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Polish (before 1939), American (from 1939) |
| Ethnicity | Polish-Jewish |
| Citizenship | American (from 1939) |
| Alma mater | Brown University, Harvard University |
| Subject | Sovietology, Education |
| Children | two sons |
| Relatives | Stanislaw Ulam (brother) |
Adam Bruno Ulam (8 April 1922 – 28 March 2000) was a Polish-American historian and political scientist at Harvard University. Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union, and the author of twenty books and many articles.
Ulam was born on April 8, 1922, in Lwów (Lviv), then Poland now Ukraine. After graduating from high school, he emigrated to the United States on or around August 20, 1939, to go to college. This was but days before the German invasion of Poland which marked the beginning of the Second World War. His father had, at the last minute, changed his departure date from September 3 to August 20, most likely saving his life since Poland was invaded by Germany on September 1. His entire family, save for his brother Stanislaw Ulam, a famous mathematician and key contributor to the Manhattan Project, perished in the Holocaust. After the United States entered the war, he tried to enlist in the army, but was rejected at first for having "relatives living in enemy territory" and later, after a second attempt, for near-sightedness.
He studied at Brown University, taught briefly at University of Wisconsin–Madison, and obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he studied from 1944 to 1947. He became a member of Harvard's faculty in 1947, was awarded tenure in 1954, and enjoyed the title of Gurney Professor of History and Political Science until he became professor emeritus in 1992. He directed the Russian Research Center (1973–1974) and was a research associate for the Center for International Studies, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953–1955). He married in 1963 and had two sons. He died from lung cancer on March 28, 2000, at the age of 77.
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