Pfizer Awardees

• 1959 Marie Boas Hall
  Marie Boas Hall
  Marie Boas Hall was a historian.She won the George Sarton Medal, the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society, together with her husband Alfred Rupert Hall in 1981.-Works:...
  
  , Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1958).
• 1960 Marshall Clagett
  Marshall Clagett
  Marshall Clagett was an American scholar who specialized in the history of science before Galileo, especially Archimedes.-Career:...
  
  , The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
  University of Wisconsin Press
  The University of Wisconsin Press is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It primarily publishes work by scholars from the global academic community but also serves the citizens of Wisconsin by publishing important books about Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and...
  
  , 1959).
• 1961 Cyril Stanley Smith
  Cyril Stanley Smith
  Cyril Stanley Smith was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals....
  
  , A History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metal before 1890 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).
• 1962 Henry Guerlac
  Henry Guerlac
  Henry Edward Guerlac was an American historian of science. He taught at Cornell University where he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of History and a member of the Department of History....
  
  , 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
  L. Pearce Williams
  Leslie Pearce Williams is the emeritus John Stambaugh Professor of the History of Science at Cornell University's Department of History, where he is also director of the program in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Besides publishing a number of books, he has written three...
  
  , 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
  Edward Rosen
  Edward Rosen was an American historian, whose main field of study was early modern Science and, in particular, the work of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.-Academic Life:...
  
  , 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
  Michael Ghiselin
  Michael T. Ghiselin is an American biologist, philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences.B.A., University of Utah ; Ph.D., Stanford University ; Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University ; Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory ; Assistant Professor of...
  
  , 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
  Richard S. Westfall
  Richard S. Westfall was an American academic, biographer and historian of science. He is best known for his biography of Isaac Newton and his work on the scientific revolution of the 17th century.-Life:...
  
  , 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
  Allen G. Debus
  Allen George Debus was an American historian of science, known primarily for his work on the history of chemistry and alchemy. In 1991 he was honored at the University of Chicago with an academic conference held in his name. Paul H...
  
  , The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York: Science History Publications, 1977).
• 1978 Merritt Roe Smith
  Merritt Roe Smith
  Merritt Roe Smith is an American historian, and the Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology, at MIT.-Life:Smith graduated from Georgetown University, and Pennsylvania State University with a Ph.D...
  
  , Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change (Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 1977).
• 1979 Susan Faye Cannon
  Susan Faye Cannon
  Susan Faye Cannon, born Walter Faw Cannon was an American historian of science.The son of James Cannon III , Dean of Duke University Divinity School, Walter F. Cannon gained a degree in physics at Princeton University....
  
  , 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
  Charles Coulston Gillispie
  Charles Coulston Gillispie is an American historian of science, and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University.The son of Raymond Livingston Gillispie, Gillispie grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...
  
  , 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
  Richard S. Westfall
  Richard S. Westfall was an American academic, biographer and historian of science. He is best known for his biography of Isaac Newton and his work on the scientific revolution of the 17th century.-Life:...
  
  , 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
  Noel Swerdlow
  Noel M. Swerdlow is a professor emeritus of history, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is currently a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology.-Career:...
  
   and Otto Neugebauer, Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984).
• 1986 I. Bernard Cohen
  I. Bernard Cohen
  I. Bernard Cohen was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of many books on the history of science and, in particular, Isaac Newton....
  
  , 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
  M. Norton Wise
  Matthew Norton Wise is a professor in the history of science at UCLA. He is also the co-director of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics. He has famously attacked Gross and Levitt's book in which they perceive the obstruction of science by the Academic Left.In the fourth term of the academical...
  
  , 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.
  John Servos
  John William Servos is an American professor and historian of science. His research centers on the historical development of science as a discourse and in the form of institutions and on how science has situated itself historically in the culture at large.Servos is the Anson D...
  
  , Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN 0691085668
• 1992 James R. Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
• 1993 David Cassidy
  David Cassidy
  David Bruce Cassidy is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the character of Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical/sitcom The Partridge Family. He was one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols, enjoying a successful pop career in the 1970s, and...
  
  , Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg (New York: Freeman, 1992).
• 1994 Joan Cadden
  Joan Cadden
  Joan Cadden is a beautician and former politician from Maryland.She was a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates in District 31 from 1991 to 2007...
  
  , 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
  Margaret W. Rossiter
  Margaret W. Rossiter is an American historian of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University.-Awards:* 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program* 1997 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize -Works:...
  
  , Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
• 1998 Peter Galison
  Peter Galison
  Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics ...
  
  , Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
• 1999 Lorraine Daston
  Lorraine Daston
  Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin...
  
   and Katharine Park
  Katharine Park
  Katharine Park is Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She specializes in the history of gender, sexuality, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and...
  
  , 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
  William Newman
  William Newman may refer to:* William Newman , politician from Ontario, Canada* William Gould Newman, politician from Ontario, Canada; MPP, 1967–1981* William Newman , football player and coach...
  
   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)
• 2008 Deborah Harkness
  Deborah Harkness
  Deborah Harkness is an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast. She is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine, specializing in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries...
  
  , 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)