Sara J. Schechner (born 1957) is an American historian of science, the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and a lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University.
[1] Schechner earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and Science with Physics from Harvard-Radcliffe of Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1979.
[2] She completed her artium magister (Master of Arts) on the History of Science at the Harvard University in 1982.
[2] Afterwards, Schechner was chief curator at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
[1] In 2000, she returned to Harvard University as the David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.