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The British Society for the History of Science Short List for the 1999 Dingle Prize announced The 1999 BSHS Dingle Prize will be awarded to the best book in history of science (broadly construed) published in English between January 1996 and December 1998, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists. The short list for the 1999 Dingle Prize is: * Laurence Brockliss & Colin Jones, The Medical World of Early Modern France, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997 * George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines, London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1997 * Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995 (paperback edition, 1997) * Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998 * Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present, London: Fontana, 1997 * Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 1996 * Robert B. Silvers (ed), The Hidden Histories of Science, London: Granta, 1997 Roger Smith, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences, London: Fontana, 1997 * Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain, Chicago and London: the University of Chicago Press, 1998 The judges will chose one winner from this short list by 1 October 1999. The prize will be awarded at a meeting on history of science and science communication in July 2000. The judges for the 1999 Dingle Prize are: * Dr Jon Agar, Lecturer at the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Manchester University * Dr Stephen Pumfrey, Lecturer at Department of History, Lancaster University * Dr Gail Vines, Science Writer and Life Sciences Consultant to New Scientist, Cambridge The winners of the 1997 Dingle Prize were Adrian Desmond and James Moore for Darwin, London: Penguin,1992 The BSHS website is at: http://www.man.ac.uk/Science_Engineering/CHSTM/bshs/ For more information about the Dingle Prize contact Dr Jeff Hughes, BSHS Secretary, CHSTM, Mathematics Tower, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Email: [log in to unmask] *************************************************** Dr. Jeff Hughes Lecturer in History of Science & Technology CHSTM, Maths Tower, The University, Manchester. M13 9PL. UK Tel: 0161 275 5857; 0410 224 855 (m) Fax: 0161 275 5699 *************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%