The Paul Bunge Prize is an international award for seminal and lasting contributions to the history of scientific instruments. Endowed in 1993 by the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920–1996), glass chemist at

Schott AG Schott AG is a German multinational glass company specializing in the manufacture of glass and glass-ceramics. Headquartered in Mainz, Germany, it is owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The company's founder and namesake, Otto Schott, is credi ...

in Mainz, and collector and historian of antique chemical balances. The name of the prize commemorates the leading German maker of precision balances in the nineteenth century

Paul Bunge Paul Bunge (1839–1888) is credited as the inventor of the short-beam analytical balance in 1866. The eponymous Paul Bunge Prize is awarded each year for outstanding publications in the history of scientific instruments. Though short-beam balan ...

(1839–1888). The Prize is given by th
Hans R. Jenemann Foundation
and jointly administered by the

German Chemical Society The German Chemical Society (German: ', GDCh) is a learned society and professional association founded in 1949 to represent the interests of German chemists in local, national and international contexts. GDCh "brings together people working in che ...

and th
Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie

Bunge Prize Laureates

* 2022 Matthew L. Jones, New York, USA * 2021 Liba Taub, Cambridge, UK * 2020 Simon Werrett, London, UK * 2019 Sara J. Schechner, Cambridge, MAidw press release (21 February 2019)
/ref> * 2018 Anthony John Turner, Le Mesnil-le-Roi, France * 2017

Simon Schaffer Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of ''The British Journal for the History of Sci ...

, Cambridge, UK * 2016 Robert G. W. Anderson, Cambridge, UK * 2015 Brian Gee (posthumously), Chelsea, UK * 2014 Cyrus C. M. Mody, Houston, TX * 2013 Marco Beretta, Bologna, Italy * 2012 David Pantalony, Ottawa, Canada * 2011 Matteo Valleriani, Berlin, Germany * 2010 Henning Schmidgen, Weimar, Germany * 2009 Jutta Schickore, Bloomington, IN * 2008

Alison Morrison-Low Dr Alison Morrison-Low is a retired Principal Curator for Science at National Museums Scotland. Background Morrison-Low is a director for the Brisbane Observatory Trust and has been a director for the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust, the Briti ...

, Edinburgh, UK * 2007 Charlotte Bigg, Berlin, Germany * 2006 Davis Baird, Columbia, SC; Inge Keil, Augsburg, Germany * 2005 Myles W. Jackson, Salem, OR * 2004 Jobst Broelmann, Munich, Germany; Carsten Reinhardt, Regensburg, Germany * 2003 Sean F. Johnston, Glasgow, UK * 2002 Paolo Brenni, Florence, Italy * 2001 Jim Bennett, Oxford, UK * 2000 Alan Q. Morton, London, UK; Richard J. Sorrenson, Bloominton, IN * 1999

Nicolas Rasmussen Nicolas "Nic" Rasmussen (born 1962) is a historian of modern life sciences, and a professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. With major interests in the history of amphetamines, the history of ...

, Sydney, Australia * 1998 Robert Bud, London, UK; Deborah J. Warner, Washington, DC * 1997

Silvio A. Bedini Silvio A. Bedini (January 17, 1917 – November 14, 2007) was an American historian, specialising in early scientific instruments. He was Historian :wikt:Emeritus, Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, where he served on the professional staf ...

, Washington, DC * 1996 David A. King, Frankfurt/Main, Germany * 1995 Gerald L'Estrange Turner, Oxford, UK * 1994 Otto Sibum, Cambridge, UK; Matthias Dörries, Munich, Germany * 1992–1993

Klaus Hentschel Klaus Hentschel (born 4 April 1961) is a German physicist, historian of science and Professor and head of the History of Science and Technology section in the History Department of the University of Stuttgart. He is known for his contributions in ...

, Hamburg, Germany; Mara Miniati, Florence, Italy

References

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External links

Foundation Flyer (in German)

Jenemann Archive Project
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