Dr. Rheinberger is a historian of science. He has been
director at the Max Planck Institute for the History
of from 1997 to 2014. His focus areas are within the history of science are the history and epistemology of the experiment,
and the history of molecular biology and protein biosynthesis
.
Additionally he writes and publicizes essays and poems. Professor Rheinberger was in residence at Northwestern Unversity in
the Spring 2016.
