The History of Science Society

Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2010
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2009 Prize Winners

Sarton Medal:

John E. Murdoch
Professor, Harvard University

Pfizer Award:

Harold J. Cook
Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine and professor at University College London
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, Yale University Press, 2007

Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize:

Charles Seife
Associate Professor, The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Viking Adult, 2008

Price/Webster:

Angela N. H. Creager, Professor, Princeton University, and
Gregory J. Morgan, Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
“After the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin's Research on Tobacco mosaic virus" (Isis, June 2008, 99:239-272)

Joseph H Hazen Education Prize:

Frederick Gregory
Professor, University of Florida

Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize:

Monica H. Green
Professor, Arizona State University
Making Women's Medicine Masculine. The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology. Oxford University Press, 2008

Nathan Reingold Prize:

Rachel N. Mason Dentinger
University of Minnesota
Molecularizing Plant Compounds, Evolutionizing Insect-Plant Relationships: Gottfried S. Fraenkel and the physiological study of insect feeding in the 1950s.

Distinguished Lecture

M. Norton Wise
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Science as Historical Narrative

HSS/NASA Space History Fellowship

Matthew Hersch
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

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