!!Lorraine Jenifer Daston - Biography
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Born in Michigan, Lorraine Daston studied in Harvard and obtained her A.B. in History and Science there in 1973, summa cum laude. She earned her Diploma from Cambridge University in 1975 before returning to Harvard for a PhD which she obtained in 1979 with a thesis on "The Reasonable Calculus: Classical Probability Theory 1650-1840". \\
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She held teaching positions in a variety of universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis (where she held the Dibner Chair), then Göttingen (Germany), Chicago, and finally, in 1995 she became the director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and is now its Director Emerita. \\
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Lorraine Daston is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and regular visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. \\
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Her work focuses on the history of science, and more broadly the history of the knowledge. She has written on the history of wonder, objectivity, observation, the moral authority of nature, probability theory, Cold War rationality, and scientific modernity.\\
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Her work has been recognized by the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society, the Dan David Prize in the history of science, the Gerda Henkel Foundation Prize in the Humanities, and the Heineken Prize in History. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the American Philosophical Society, the German National Academy of Sciences, and corresponding member of the British Academy. She was awarded the 2025 Balzan Prize.\\
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