Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Degree in Philosophy and then Biology in Tübingen and Berlin. Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1982, post-doctoral thesis in molecular biology in 1987. Teaching and research activities in Berlin, Lübeck and Salzburg in molecular biology and the history of science with the main focus on protein biosynthesis, the history and epistemology of experimentation, and the history of molecular biology. He has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin since 1997.

His publications include (selection): "Reassessing the historical epistemology of Georges Canguilhem", in: »Continental Philosophy of Science«, Gary Gutting (ed.), 2005, 187-197; »Iterationen«, Berlin Merve 2005; »Classical genetic research and its legacy: the mapping cultures of twentieth-century genetics« (ed., with J.-P. Gaudillière), London 2004; »From molecular genetics to genomics: the mapping cultures of twentieth-century genetics« (ed., with J.-P. Gaudillière), London 2004; »Experimentalsysteme und epistemische Dinge: eine Geschichte der Proteinsynthese im Reagenzglas«, Göttingen 2001.

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