The Suzanne J. Levinson Prize is a prize of the
History of Science Society
The History of Science Society (HSS) is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. It was founded in 1924 by George Sarton, David Eugene Smith, and Lawrence Joseph Henderson, primarily to support the publi ...
, awarded biennially and established in 2006. The prize is given to the author of "a book in the history of the life sciences and natural history," published in the previous four years.
The following authors have won the Levinson Prize:
*2006 Prize -
Sandra Herbert, ''Charles Darwin: Geologist''
*2008 Prize -
Hannah Landecker
Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969) is an Australian author and academic working as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.
Education
Landecker earned a Bachelor of Sci ...
, ''Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies''
*2010 Prize - Gregory Radick, ''The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language'' .
*2012 Prize -
Martin Rudwick, ''Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform''
*2014 Prize - Daniela Bleichmar, ''Visible Empire.Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment''
*2016 Prize - Nick Hopwood, ''Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud''
*2018 Prize - Evelleen Richards, ''Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection''
*2020 Prize - Erika Lorraine Milam, ''Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America''
*2022 Prize - Jenny Bangham, ''Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics''
See also
*
List of history awards
External links
History of Science Society: Suzanne J. Levinson Prize
History of science awards
Awards established in 2006
American awards
2006 establishments in the United States
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