Lorraine Daston | |
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Born | East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. | June 9, 1951
Education | Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University |
Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science. She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin,[1] visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago,[2] and an authority on Early Modern European scientific and intellectual history.[1] In 1993, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] She is a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.[4]