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"

Pfizer Awardees

* 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 ldeas 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 White, Jr., "Medieval Technology and Social Change" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962).
* 1964 Robert E. Schofield, "The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England" (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).
* 1965 Charles D. O'Malley, "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 Howard B. Adelmann, "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 David Joravsky, "The Lysenko Affair" (Cambridge, Mass.: 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 Fruton, "Molecules and Life: Historical Essays on the Interplay ofChemistry and Biology" (New York: John Wiley, 1972).
* 1974 Susan Schlee, "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 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 F. 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 lsaac 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, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985).
* 1987 Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, "Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein; Volume I: The Torch of Mathematics, 1800-1870"; "Volume II: The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870-1925" (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 J. Daston, "Classical Probability in the Enlightenment" (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1988).
* 1990 Crosbie Smith 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 John W. Servos, "Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America" (Princeton, NJ: 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 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 Crosbie Smith, "The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics" (University of Chicago Press, 1998).
* 2001 John Heilbron, "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories" (Harvard University Press, 1999).
* 2002 James Secord, "Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation(University of Chicago Press, 2000).
* 2003 Mary Terrall, "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 Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., "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)

External links

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