Lorraine Daston
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 73 |
Date of birth | June 9,1951 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | East Lansing |
Michigan | |
United States | |
Academic employer | The University of Chicago |
Job | Historian of Science |
Books | Against Nature |
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality | |
Objectivity | |
History of Science as European Self-portraiture | |
Biographies of Scientific Objects | |
Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 | |
The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life | |
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment | |
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences | |
Awards | Pfizer Award |
George Sarton Medal | |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | |
Spouse | Gerd Gigerenzer |
Academic advisor | I. Bernard Cohen |
Education | Harvard University |
Nationality | American |
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ID | 554473 |
Lorraine Daston Life story
Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science. Director emerita 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 an authority on Early Modern European scientific and intellectual history.