Pfizer Award

{{short description|Award in history of science}} {{about|the History of Science award|other awards|Pfizer Award (disambiguation)}}

The '''Pfizer Award''' is awarded annually by the History of Science Society "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science" that was "published in English during a period of three calendar years immediately preceding the year of competition."<ref name="HSS">{{Cite web |title=Pfizer Award |url=https://hssonline.org/page/pfizeraward |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=History of Science Society}}</ref>

== 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 {{ill|Robert E. Schofield|fr}}, ''The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England'' (London: Oxford University Press, 1963). * 1965 Charles Donald 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 {{ill|Howard B. Adelmann|fr}}, ''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, 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 {{ill|Susan Schlee|fr}}, ''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 {{ill|Crosbie Smith|fr}} 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., [https://books.google.com/books?id=1UZjU2WfLAoC ''Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America''], Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990. {{ISBN|0-691-08566-8}} * 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 {{ill|Crosbie Smith|fr}}, ''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 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 {{ill|Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.|fr|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) * 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 {{ill|John Tresch|fr}}, ''The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon'' (University of Chicago Press, 2012) * 2014 {{ill|Sachiko Kusukawa|fr}}, ''Picturing the book of nature: Image, text and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany'' (University of Chicago Press, 2012) * 2015 {{ill|Daniel Todes|fr}}, ''Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science'' (Oxford University Press, 2014) * 2016 {{ill|Omar W. Nasim|fr}}, ''Observing by Hand. Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century'' (University of Chicago Press, 2013) * 2017 {{ill|Tiago Saraiva|fr}}, '' Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism'' (MIT Press, 2016) <ref name="HSS" /> * 2018 {{ill|Anita Guerrini|fr}}, ''The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris'' (University of Chicago Press, 2015) * 2019 {{ill|Deborah R. Coen|fr}}, ''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) * 2021 María Portuondo, ''The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano''. * 2022 Tara Nummedal, ''Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany'' * 2023 Robyn d'Avignon, ''Ritual Geology. Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa'' * 2024 Projit Mukharji, ''Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66''

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