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The latest winner of the Pfizer Award is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the award. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.

The Pfizer Award in the History of Science is awarded annually "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science." To be eligible a book must have been published in English in the three years immediately before the award date. The winner receives a medal and $2,500.

  

The Latest Winner of the Pfizer Award in the History of Science

2008 - The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah Harkness  [2009 award will be announced early 2010]

 

All past Winners of the Pfizer Award in the History of Science

1959 - Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry by Marie Boas Hall

 

1960 - The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages by Marshall Clagett

 

1961 - A History of Metallography: The Development of ldeas on the Structure of Metal before 1890 by Cyril Stanley Smith

1962 - Lavoisier, The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772 by Henry Guerlac

 

1963 - Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White, Jr.

 

1964 - The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England by Robert E. Schofield

 

1965 - Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 by Charles D. O'Malley

 

1966 - Michael Faraday: A Biography by L. Pearce Williams

 

1967 - Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology by Howard B. Adelmann

 

1968 - Kepler's Somnium: The Dream Or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy by Edward Rosen

 

1969 - Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body by Margaret T. May

 

1970 - The Triumph of the Darwinian Method by Michael Ghiselin

 

1971 - The Lysenko Affair by David Joravsky

 

1972 - Force in Newton's Physics: The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century by Richard S. Westfall

 

1973 - Molecules and Life: Historical Essays on the Interplay of Chemistry and Biology by Joseph Fruton

 

1974 - The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography by Susan Schlee

 

1975 - Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry: The Emergence of a Scientist by Frederic L. Holmes

 

1976 - A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (3 vols.) by Otto Neugebauer

 

1977 - The Kind of Motion We Call Heat by Stephen G. Brush

 

1978

The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Allen G. Debus

Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change by Merritt Roe Smith

 

1979 - Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period by Susan F. Cannon

 

1980 - Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend by Frank J. Sulloway

 

1981 - Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime by Charles Coulston Gillispie

 

1982 - Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs to Leonardo da Vinci by Thomas Goldstein

 

1983 - Never at Rest: A Biography of lsaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall

 

1984 - Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning

 

1985 - Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus by Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer

 

1986 - Revolution in Science by I. Bernard Cohen

 

1987 - 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 by Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach

 

1988 - Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior by Robert J. Richards

 



 

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