Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston
Born	(1951-06-09) June 9, 1951 (age 72) East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University

Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951)^[1] is an American historian of science. Director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, she is 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. She is a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.^[2]