The idea behind the Pathfinders series is to figure out what matters in and to distinguished professional careers in history of science—widely defined—through a interview with a senior historian of science at MPIWG or from the outside.

The aspiration is to foster discussion about what important social, intellectual, and material factors can influence a scholarly career; crucial career-shaping choices and coincidences, inspiring articles and people, significant publications and material things that mattered. Feel free to spread to interested colleagues in Berlin and elsewhere.