Lorraine Daston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lorraine Daston

American historian of science

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1951

Place of Birth: East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951 in East Lansing, Michigan) 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 .