Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston is is an eminent 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. In 1993, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Daston is the author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (1998), Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (2004), Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe  (2008), Science in the Archives (2017), and Against Nature (2019). Daston has received several prestigious awards, including the Pfizer Prize and the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society. In 2020, she was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History, for her research into the development of the concept of objectivity.