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Boris Mikhailovich Hessen (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Ге́ссен), also Gessen (16 August 1893, Elisavetgrad – 20 December 1936, Moscow),[1] was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science.
- ^ The date of death is given incorrectly in most sources, including the Russian Academy of Sciences web site [1]. The exact date was determined recently by the Russian society Memorial.