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Lorraine Daston

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Daston, Lorraine
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Date of birth
1951-06-09
Place of birth
East Lansing

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Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science and philosopher. She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and an authority on early modern Europe's scientific and intellectual history. In 1993, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, and was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2025.

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American historian of science.

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