Pfizer Award

The Pfizer Award is awarded annually by the History of Science Society "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science"

Recipients

* 1959 Marie Boas Hall, ''Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1958).
* 1960 Marshall Clagett, ''The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages'' (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959).
* 1961 Cyril Stanley Smith, ''A History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metal before 1890'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).
* 1962 Henry Guerlac, ''Lavoisier, The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772'' (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961)
* 1963 Lynn Townsend White Jr., ''Medieval Technology and Social Change'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962).
* 1964 , ''The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).
* 1965 , ''Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964).
* 1966 L. Pearce Williams, ''Michael Faraday: A Biography'' (New York: Basic Books, 1965).
* 1967 , ''Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology'' (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966).
* 1968 Edward Rosen, ''Kepler's Somnium'' (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967).
* 1969 Margaret T. May, ''Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body'' (Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968).
* 1970 Michael Ghiselin, ''The Triumph of the Darwinian Method'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
* 1971 , ''The Lysenko Affair'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970).
* 1972 Richard S. Westfall, ''Force in Newton's Physics: The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century'' (New York: American Elsevier, 1971).
* 1973 Joseph S. Fruton, ''Molecules and Life: Historical Essays on the Interplay ofChemistry and Biology'' (New York: John Wiley, 1972).
* 1974 , ''The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography'' (New York: Dutton, 1973).
* 1975 Frederic L. Holmes, ''Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry: The Emergence of a Scientist'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974).
* 1976 Otto E. Neugebauer, ''A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy'' (3 vols.) (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975).
* 1977 Stephen G. Brush, ''The Kind of Motion We Call Heat'' (Amsterdam/New York: North-Holland, 1976).
* 1978 Allen G. Debus, ''The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'' (New York: Science History Publications, 1977).
* 1978 Merritt Roe Smith, Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change (Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 1977).
* 1979 Susan Faye Cannon, ''Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period'' (New York: Science History Publications, 1978).
* 1980 Frank J. Sulloway, ''Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend'' (New York: Basic Books, 1979).
* 1981 Charles Coulston Gillispie, ''Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime'' (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980).
* 1982 Thomas Goldstein, ''Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs to Leonardo da Vinci'' (New York: Hougbton Mifllin, 1980).
* 1983 Richard S. Westfall, ''Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
* 1984 Kenneth R. Manning, '' Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).
* 1985 Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer, ''Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus'' (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984).
* 1986 I. Bernard Cohen, ''Revolution in Science'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985).
* 1987 Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, '' Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
* 1988 Robert J. Richards, ''Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
* 1989 Lorraine Daston, ''Classical Probability in the Enlightenment'' (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1988).
* 1990 and M. Norton Wise, ''Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
* 1991 Adrian Desmond, ''The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
* 1991 Servos, John W.
''Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America''
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.
* 1992 James R. Bartholomew, ''The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
* 1993 David C. Cassidy, '' Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg'' (New York: Freeman, 1992).
* 1994 Joan Cadden, ''The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
* 1995 Pamela H. Smith, ''The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).
* 1996 Paula Findlen, ''Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
* 1997 Margaret W. Rossiter, ''Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
* 1998 Peter Galison, ''Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
* 1999 Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, ''Wonders and the Order of Nature'', 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998).
* 2000 , ''The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics'' (University of Chicago Press, 1998).
* 2001 John L. Heilbron, ''The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories'' (Harvard University Press, 1999).
* 2002 James A. Secord, ''Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
* 2003 , ''The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment'' (University of Chicago Press, 2002).
* 2004 Janet Browne, ''Charles Darwin: The Power of Place'' (Princeton University Press, 2003)
* 2005 William Newman and Lawrence Principe, ''Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry''
* 2006 , ''Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology''
* 2007 David Kaiser, ''Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics'' (University of Chicago, 2005)
* 2008 Deborah Harkness, ''The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution'' (Yale University Press, 2007)
* 2009 Harold J. Cook, ''Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age'' (Yale University Press, 2007)
* 2010 Maria Rosa Antognazza, ''Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography'' (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
* 2011 Eleanor Robson, ''Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History'' (Princeton University Press, 2008)
* 2012 Dagmar Schaefer, ''The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China'' (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
* 2013 , ''The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon'' (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
* 2014 , ''Picturing the book of nature: Image, text and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany'' (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
* 2015 , ''Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science'' (Oxford University Press, 2014)
* 2016 , ''Observing by Hand. Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century'' (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
* 2017 , '' Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism'' (MIT Press, 2016)
* 2018 , ''The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris'' (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
* 2019 , ''Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale'' (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
* 2020 Theodore M. Porter, ''Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity'' (Princeton University Press, 2018)

References

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Science and technology awards
Awards established in 1959
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