The George Sarton Medal is the most prestigious award given by the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955. It is awarded to an

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

from the international community who became distinguished for "a lifetime of scholarly achievement" in the field. The medal was designed by Bern Dibner and is named after

George Sarton George Alfred Leon Sarton (; 31 August 1884 – 22 March 1956) was a Belgian-born American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study. His most influential work ...

, the founder of the journal ''Isis'' and one of the founders of modern

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

. The Sarton Medalists are: *1955 –

*1956 – Charles Singer and Dorothea Waley Singer *1957 – Lynn Thorndike *1958 –

John Farquhar Fulton John Farquhar Fulton (November 1, 1899 – May 29, 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine a ...

*1959 – Richard Shryock *1960 –

Owsei Temkin Owsei Temkin ( be, Аўсей Цемкін; October 6, 1902 – July 18, 2002) was William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He was a Russian-born, German-educated, American medical historian. Af ...

*1961 – Alexandre Koyré *1962 – E. J. Dijksterhuis *1963 – Vassili Zoubov *1964 – ''not awarded'' *1965 – J. R. Partington *1966 – Anneliese Maier *1967 – ''not awarded'' *1968 –

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, i ...

*1969 – Kurt Vogel *1970 – Walter Pagel *1971 – Willy Hartner *1972 – Kiyosi Yabuuti *1973 – Henry Guerlac *1974 – I. Bernard Cohen *1975 –

René Taton René Taton (4 April 1915 – 9 August 2004) was a French author, historian of science, and long co-editor (along with Suzanne Delorme) of the ''Revue d'histoire des sciences''. Life He was born on 4 April 1915 in L'Échelle. He died on 9 ...

*1976 – Bern Dibner *1977 – Derek T. Whiteside *1978 – Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich *1979 – Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli *1980 – Marshall Clagett *1981 – A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall *1982 – Thomas S. Kuhn *1983 – Georges Canguilhem *1984 – Charles Coulston Gillispie *1985 – Co-winners: Paolo Rossi (philosopher and historian of science) and Richard S. Westfall *1986 –

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His ...

*1987 – G.E.R. Lloyd *1988 – Stillman Drake *1989 –

Gerald Holton Gerald James Holton (born May 23, 1922) is an American physicist, historian of science, and educator, whose professional interests also include philosophy of science and the fostering of careers of young men and women. He is Mallinckrodt Profes ...

*1990 – A. Hunter Dupree *1991 – Mirko D. Grmek *1992 – Edward Grant and George A. van Sande *1993 –

John L. Heilbron John Lewis Heilbron (born 17 March 1934, San Francisco) is an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy. He is Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus (Vice-Chancellor 19 ...

*1994 – Allen G. Debus *1995 – Charles E. Rosenberg *1996 – Loren Graham *1997 – Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs *1998 – Thomas L. Hankins *1999 – David C. Lindberg *2000 – Frederic L. Holmes *2001 – Daniel J. Kevles *2002 – John Colton Greene *2003 – Nancy Siraisi *2004 – Robert E. Kohler *2005 –

A. I. Sabra Abdelhamid Ibrahim Sabra (1924-2013) was a professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam. He died December 18, 2013. Sabra provided English translation and commentary for Books I-III *Sabr ...

*2006 – Mary Jo Nye *2007 – Martin J. S. Rudwick *2008 – Ronald L. Numbers *2009 – John E. Murdoch *2010 – Michael McVaugh *2011 –

Robert J. Richards Robert J. Richards (born 1942) is an author and the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has written or edited seven books about the history of science as well as ...

*2012 – Lorraine Daston *2013 – Simon Schaffer *2014 – Steven Shapin *2015 – Robert Fox *2016 – Katharine Park *2017 – Garland E. Allen *2018 – Sally Gregory Kohlstedt *2019 – M. Norton Wise *2020 – Jim Bennett *2021 – Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent *2022 –

Margaret W. Rossiter Margaret W. Rossiter (born July 1944) is an American historian of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University. Rossiter coined the term Matilda effect for the systematic suppression of information ...

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History of Science Society, The Sarton Medalists
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