Awards Given by the History of Science Society: HSS Distinguished Lecture
The History of Science Society's series of Distinguished Lectures began in 1981 at the annual meeting in Los Angeles, California. In planning for that meeting, and in response to the proliferation of parallel sessions, program co-chairs David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers decided to create a plenary forum featuring a historian of science at the height of his or her career. Over the past 20 years this "Society Lecture" has evolved into a highlight of the annual meeting, drawing by far the largest attendance of any session. Through the generosity of Joseph H. Hazen, the renamed HSS Distinguished Lecture has been endowed, allowing the Society to cover the lecturer's expenses and honorarium.
1981 |
Charles C. Gillispie, "Image and Reality: The Montgolfiers and the Invention of Aviation" |
1982 |
Charles E. Rosenberg, "Science in American Society: a Generation of Historical Debate" |
1983 |
Richard S. Westfall |
1984 |
I. Bernard Cohen, "Idea, Object, and Image in the Development of Scientific Thought" |
1985 |
Frederic L. Holmes, "Scientific Writing and Scientific Discovery" |
1986 |
John L. Heilbron, "Applied History of Science" |
1987 |
David C. Lindberg, "What Shall We Do with the Middle Ages?" |
1988 |
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, "Parlors and Primers: Education in Science in the Nineteenth Century" |
1989 |
Jacques Roger, "Man in Eighteenth-Century Natural History" |
1990 |
Owen Hannaway, "The Middle Ground: Finding a Place between Science and History" |
1991 |
Loren Graham, "The Case of Gorbachev and the Ghost of the Executed Engineer" |
1992 |
Daniel J. Kevles, "The Enemies Without and Within: Cancer and the History of the Laboratory Sciences" |
1993 |
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, "Newton as Final Cause and First Mover" |
1994 |
David Hollinger, "Science as a Weapon in Kulturkämpfen in the United States During and After World War II" |
1995 |
A. I. Sabra, "Situating Arabic Science: Locality versus Essence" |
1976 |
Allen G. Debus, "The Chemists, the Physicians, and the Scientific Revolution" |
1997 |
Thomas L. Hankins, "Blood, Dirt, and Nomograms: A Particular History of Graphs" |
1998 |
Martin Rudwick, "The First Historical Science of Nature" |
1999 |
Charles C. Gillispie, "The Past as Prologue" |
2000 |
Mary Jo Nye, "The Cultural and Political Sources of Science as Social Practice" |
2001 |
John Hedley Brooke, "Science, Religion, and the Unification of Nature" |
2002 |
Lorraine Daston, "Reading Books, Nature, and the Book of Nature in Early Modern Europe" |
2003 |
Joan Cadden, "Find What Wind Serves to Advance an Honest Mind: Phenomena and Fashions in the History of Medieval Science" |
2004 |
Peter Dear, "What is the History of Science the History of? Identifying the Subject-Matter of a Discipline" |
2005 |
Janet Browne, "Making Darwin: Biography and Character" |
2006 |
Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., "The Leopard in the Garden: Life in Close Quarters at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle" |
2007 |
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2008 |
Steven Shapin, "Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble Calling" |
2009 |
M. Norton Wise , "On Science as Historical Narrative " |
2010 |
Nancy Siraisi, "What Was Medicine 1450-1620 and What Did It Have to Do with Science?" |
2011 |
Silvan Schweber, "Biography as Contextual History: Hans Bethe" |