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

1989 - Classical Probability in the Enlightenment by Lorraine J. Daston

1990 - Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin by Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise

1991

The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London by Adrian Desmond

Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America by John W. Servos

1992 - The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition by James R. Bartholomew

1993 - Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David Cassidy

1994 - The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages by Joan Cadden

1995 - The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela H. Smith

1996 - Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen

1997 - Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 by Margaret W. Rossiter

1998 - Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics by Peter Galison

1999 - Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park

2000 - The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics In Victorian Britain by Crosbie Smith

2001 - The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by John Heilbron

2002 - Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by James Secord

2003 - The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment by Mary Terrall

2004 - Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

2005 - Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry by William Newman and Lawrence Principe

2006 - Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology by Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.

2007 - Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics by David Kaiser

2008 - The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah Harkness

2009 - 2009 award will be announced early 2010

(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.)

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