> From: "Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:15 AM
> Subject: Prize announcement
>
>
> PRIZE ANNNOUNCEMENT
>
> The 2002 Forum for the History of Science in America Prize will be awarded
> for a first book in the history of American science by a scholar not more
> than ten years beyond the date of receipt of the Ph.D. (an author granted
> the Ph.D. in 1992 would be eligible for the 2002 prize). To be eligible,
> the book must have been published in English within the three years previous
> to the prize year, i.e., 1999, 2000, 2001. The subject area--history of
> North American science--is defined to include Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean,
> and the United States. Authors may nominate themselves.
>
> The Prize will be presented at the Forum's annual meeting at the History of
> Science Society meeting, Milwaukee, 7-10 November 2002. The 2000 book prize
> was awarded to Nicolas Rasmussen, for Picture Control: The Electron
> Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 (Stanford
> University Press, 1997). The Forum's essay prize (given in alternate years)
> was awarded in 2001 to Edmund Paul Russell, III, for "The Strange Case of
> DDT: Experts, Federal Capacity, and Environmentalism in World War II,"
> Technology and Culture vol. 40 (October 1999): 770-796.
>
> Please send nominations for the Forum Prize--including one copy of the book,
> full bibliographic information, and the date of the author's Ph.D., directly
> to EACH of the three prize committee members. Nominations must be sent out
> by June 1, 2002. For more information, please email any of the prize
> committee members.
>
> Nancy Slack
> Chair, Forum for the History of Science in America Prize Committee
>
> Prof. Nancy Slack
> Biology Department
> Russell Sage College
> Troy, NY 12180
> (518) 244-2288
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> Dr. Clark A. Elliott
> 105 Beech Street #2
> Belmont, MA 02478
> (617) 489-0822
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> Dr. Sylvia McGrath
> Stephen F Austin State Univ
> Box 13013
> Department of History
> Nacogdoches, TX 75962-0001
> (936) 468-2452
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