The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is the highest award of the

Society for the History of Technology The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is the primary professional society for historians of technology. SHOT was founded in 1958 in the United States, and it has since become an international society with members "from some thirty-five ...

(SHOT), and was first given in 1962. In general this award is granted annually to scholars who have contributed outstandingly to the history of technology through research, teaching, publication or other activities. The prize consists of a certificate and a medal.

List of recipients

* 1962 Robert James Forbes * 1963 Abbott Payson Usher * 1964 Lynn T. White, Jr. * 1965 Maurice Daumas * 1966

Cyril Stanley Smith Cyril Stanley Smith (4 October 1903 – 25 August 1992) was a British metallurgist and historian of science. He is most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals. A graduate ...

* 1967

Melvin Kranzberg Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, 1917 – December 6, 1995) was an American historian, and professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1 ...

* 1968 Joseph Needham * 1969

Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a w ...

* 1970 Bertrand Gille * 1971 A. G. Drachmann * 1972 Ladislao Reti * 1973 Carl W. Condit * 1974

Bern Dibner Bern Dibner (18August 18976January 1988) was an electrical engineer, industrialist, and historian of science and technology. He originated two major US library collections in the history of science and technology. Biography Dibner was born in Lis ...

* 1975 Friedrich Klemm * 1976

Derek J. de Solla Price Derek John de Solla Price (22 January 1922 – 3 September 1983) was a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist. He was known for his investigation of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek planetary computer, an ...

* 1977 Eugene S. Ferguson * 1978 Torsten Althin * 1979 John U. Nef * 1980 John Bell Rae * 1981 Donald S. L. Cardwell * 1982 ''not awarded'' * 1983 Louis C. Hunter * 1984

Brooke Hindle Brooke may refer to: People * Brooke (given name) * Brooke (surname) * Brooke baronets, families of baronets with the surname Brooke Places * Brooke, Norfolk, England * Brooke, Rutland, England * Brooke, Virginia, US * Brooke's Point, Palawan ...

* 1985

Thomas P. Hughes Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American historian of technology. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. ...

* 1986 Hugh G. J. Aitken * 1987 Robert P. Multhauf * 1988 Sidney M. Edelstein * 1989 R. Angus Buchanan * 1990 Edwin T. Layton, Jr. * 1991 Carroll W. Pursell * 1992

Otto Mayr Otto Mayr (born November 2, 1930) is a German mechanical engineer, historian of technology, curator, author and former director of the National Museum of History and Technology in Washington DC and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He is particularl ...

* 1993 W. David Lewis * 1994

Merritt Roe Smith Merritt Roe Smith (1940) is an American historian. He is the Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Life Smith graduated from Georgetown University, and Pennsylvania State U ...

* 1995 Bruce Sinclair * 1996

Nathan Rosenberg Nathan Rosenberg (November 22, 1927 – August 24, 2015) was an American economist specializing in the history of technology. Biography Rosenberg earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1955, and taught at Indiana University (1955–195 ...

* 1997 Ruth Schwartz Cowan * 1998 Walter G. Vincenti * 1999 ''not awarded'' * 2000 Silvio A. Bedini * 2001 Robert C. Post * 2002 Leo Marx * 2003 Bart Hacker * 2004

David Landes David Saul Landes (April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of ''Bankers and Pashas'', '' Revolution in Time'', '' The Unbound Prometheus'', '' The Wealth and Poverty ...

* 2005 David E. Nye * 2006 Eric H. Robinson * 2007

David A. Hounshell David Allen Hounshell (born 1950) is an American academic. He is the David M. Roderick Professor of Technology and Social Change in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Department of History, and the Department of Engineering and Publ ...

* 2008 Joel A. Tarr * 2009 Susan J. Douglas * 2010 Svante Lindqvist * 2011 John M. Staudenmaier * 2012

Wiebe Bijker Wiebe E. Bijker (born 19 March 1951, Delft) is a Dutch professor Emeritus, former chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Early life Bijker's father was an engineer involved in imp ...

* 2013 Rosalind Williams * 2014 Pamela O. Long * 2015

Johan Schot Johannes Willem "Johan" Schot (born 4 February 1961) is a Dutch historian working in the field of science and technology policy. A historian of technology and an expert in sustainability transitions, Johan Schot is Professor of Global Comparative ...

* 2016 Ronald R. Kline * 2017 Arnold Pacey * 2018

Joy Parr Joy Parr (born 1949) is a Canadian historian. Parr is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk. She is known for her work in the fields of labour and gender histo ...

* 2019 Francesca Brayhttps://www.historyoftechnology.org/about-us/awards-prizes-and-grants/the-leonardo-da-vinci-medal/2019-leonardo-da-vinci-medal-winner-francesca-bray/ (Accessed Dec. 2019) * 2020 Maria Paula Diogo * 2020 Arthur P. Molella * 2021 Suzanne Moon

References

External links

The Leonardo da Vinci Medal – Society for the History of Technology
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