Professor Lorraine Daston FBA
History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Current post
Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David A. Bell FBA
The history of the late-18th and early-19th century "Age of Revolution", with a particular emphasis on political culture and the French Revolution
Professor Colin Jones FBA
History of France, especially 17th to 19th centuries; French Revolution; history of medicine; cultural history
