Lorraine Daston

Historian of Science, Author

1951 –

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Who is Lorraine Daston?

Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science. Executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, she is considered an authority on Early Modern European scientific and intellectual history. In 1993, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Born
Jun 9, 1951
East Lansing
Also known as
  • Lorraine Jenifer Daston
  • Lorraine J. Daston
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Harvard University
    History of science
    ( - 1979)
Employment
  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • University of Chicago
Lived in
  • Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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