Lorraine Jenifer Daston#
| Membership Number: | 7158 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Daston |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 Director (emerita), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
- 2005 Visiting Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
- 2008 Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 1997 Research Associate, Department of History, University of Chicago
- 1992 - 1997 Professor, History/History of Science, University of Chicago
- 1990 - 1992 Professor and Director, Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1986 - 1990 Associate Professor, History/History of Science, Brandeis University, Dibner Chair for the History of Science
- 1983 - 1986 Assistant Professor, History/History of Science, Princeton University
- 1980 - 1983 Assistant Professor, History of Science, Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- History of science
- History of probability and statistics
- Ideals and practices of rationality
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Balzan Prize
- 2021 Honorary doctorate, EPFL Lausanne
- 2021 Fellow, National Humanities Center, U.S.A.
- 2020 Gerda Henkel Preis in the Humanities
- 2020 Heineken Prize for History, Royal Netherlands Academy
- 2016 Honorary doctorate of humane letters, Hebrew University
- 2016 Bayerischer Maximiliansorden
- 2014 Lichtenberg Medaille, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- 2013 Honorary doctorate of humane letters, Princeton University
- 2010 Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Grossem Stern, Federal Republic of Germany
- 2010 Orden pour le Mérite, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1999 Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society (with Katharine Park; for best book by a North American author in the History of Science in the previous three years)
- Memberships
- 2017 American Philosophical Society
- 2010 British Academy, Corresponding Member
- 2006 Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, Paris
- 2002 Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
- 1998 Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 1993 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow
