Matthias Dörries is professor for history of science at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He has studied at the University of Freiburg, the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and holds degrees in the natural and the human sciences. His research work focuses on the physical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the relation between science and language.