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Michael Hagner

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Michael Hagner, born 1960 in Bochum, studied Medicine and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. After posts in London, Lübeck and Götttingen he joined the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He gained his professorial ‘habilitation’ at the University of Göttingen in 1994. He has been Professor of Science Studies at the  Swiss Technical University (ETH) in Zurich since 2003.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2014 Martin Wagner Medal
  • 2014 Aby Warburg Foundation Science Prize
  • 2008 Sigmund Freud Prize for Science Writing
  • 2000 Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

More Publications

Die Lust am Buch.
Insel Verlag, Berlin 2019
 
Zur Sache des Buches
Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015.
 
Der Geist bei der Arbeit. Historische Untersuchungen zur Hirnforschung
Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006.
 
Homo cerebralis. Der Wandel vom Seelenorgan zum Gehirn
Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 2000.

Featured Books

Book cover The private tutor - The story of a criminal case

Der Hauslehrer - Die Geschichte eines Kriminalfalls
[The private tutor - The story of a criminal case]

Suhrkamp Verlag

Book cover The brains of geniuses. On the history of elite brain research

Geniale Gehirne. Zur Geschichte der Elitegehirnforschung
[The brains of geniuses. On the history of elite brain research]

Wallstein Verlag

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