(With apologies for cross-posting)
The History of Science Society has announced the winners
of the Society's 2006 Prizes. Further information will be made available on
the HSS web site.
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Sarton Medal (for a lifetime of scholarly achievement):
Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University
Pfizer Prize (for an outstanding book in the history of science):
Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of
Ethology. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize (for the best book directed to a
wide public):
Robin Marantz Henig, Pandora's Baby: How the First Test-Tube Babies Sparked
the Reproductive Revolution. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Nathan Reingold Prize (for the best graduate student essay):
Joy Rohde, University of Pennsylvania, "Gray Matters: Social Scientists,
Military Patronage, and Disinterested Truth in The Cold War."
Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize (for educational excellence in the history
of science):
Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds
Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize (for the best article
on the history of women in science):
Arlene Marcia Tuchman, Vanderbilt University, "Situating Gender: Marie E.
Zakrzewska and the Place of Science in Womenıs Medical Education." ISIS
MARCH 2004 VOLUME 95 NUMBER 1
Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize (for the best article in Isis):
K. Maria D. Lane, University of New Mexico, "Geographers of Mars:
Cartographic Inscription and Exploration Narrative in Late Victorian
Representations of the Red Planet" ISIS, DECEMBER 2005 VOLUME 96 NUMBER 4
Suzanne J. Levinson Prize (a new prize for the best book on the history of
life sciences and natural history):
Sandra Herbert, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Charles Darwin,
Geologist. Cornell University Press, 2005.
Dr Gregory Radick
Senior Lecturer and Chair of Division
Division of History and Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Tel: 01943 601 433
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