Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize

The award is given in recognition of excellence in a research article published in Isis. Eligible articles are those published in issues of Isis three years prior to the year in which the award is given (i.e., the calendar year in which the award is given is not included). The prize may not be split between two articles.

The prize name was changed from the Derek Price Prize to the Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize in 2002 due to a generous gift from Marjorie (Madge) Webster. It was she and her husband, the late Roderick Webster, who helped endow the old Zeitlin-Verbrugge Prize, which was then renamed the Derek Price Award.

Prize Committee Members:
Diane Paul, 2004-2007 (Chair)
Stuart W. "Bill" Leslie, 2006-2008
Sachiko Kusukawa, 2006-2009

Maria D. Lane, "Geographers of Mars: Cartographic Inscription and Exploration Narrative in Late Victorian Representatives of the Red Planet" Isis, December 2005, Volume 96, Number 4, won the 2006 prize.

All eligible articles are automatically nominated for this prize.

Derek Price/Rod Webster Past Winners

1979 Robert Nye, "Heredity or Milieu: The Foundations of European Criminological Theory," Isis, 1976, 67: 335-355.
1980 Thomas L. Hankins, "Triplets and Triads: Sir William Rowan Hamilton on the Metaphysics of Mathematics," Isis, 1977, 68: 175-193.
1981 Linda E. Voigts, "Anglo-Saxon Plant Remedies and the Angle-Saxons," Isis, 1979, 70: 250-268.
1982 Timothy Lenoir, "Rant, Blumenbach, and Vital Materialism in German Biology," Isis, 1980, 71: 77-108.
1983 Alexander Vucinich, "Soviet Physicists and Philosophers in the 1930s: Dynamics of a Conflict," Isis, 1980, 71: 236-250.
1984 James Secord, "Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons," Isis, 1981, 72: 163-186.
1985 Keith Hutchison, "What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution?" Isis, 1982, 73: 233-253.
1986 Mara Beller, "Matrix Theory Before Schrodinger: Philosophy, Problems, Consequences," Isis, 1983, 74: 469-491.
1987 Richard S. Westfall, "Scientific Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope," Isis, 1985, 76: 11-30.
1988 Owen Hannaway, "Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe," Isis, 1986, 77: 585-610.
1989 David C. Lindberg, "Science as Handmaiden: Roger Bacon and the Patristic Tradition," Isis, 1987, 78: 511-536.
1990 Steven Shapin, "The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England," Isis, 1988, 79: 373-404.
1991 Mario Biagioli, "Galileo the Emblem Maker, " Isis, 1990, 81: 230-258.
1992 Sharon Kingsland, "The Battling Botanist: Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Mutation Theory, and the Rise of Experimental Evolutionary Biology in America 1900-1912, " Isis, 1991, 82: 479-209.
1993 John Harley Warner, "Ideals of Science and Their Discontents in late Nineteenth-century American Medicine, " Isis, 1991, 82: 454-478.
1994 Mary Terrall, "Representing the Earth's Shape: The Polemics Surrounding Maupertuis's Expedition to Lapland," Isis, 1992, 83: 218-237.
1995 Paula Findlen, "Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi," Isis, 1993, 84: 441-469.
1996 John Carson, "Army Alpha, Army Brass, and the Search for Army Intelligence," Isis, 1993, 84: 278-309.
1997 William J. Ashworth "Memory, Efficiency, and Symbolic Analysis: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the Industrial Mind," Isis, 1996, 87: 629-653.
1998 Deborah E. Harkness, "Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy," Isis, 1997, 88: 247-262.
1999 Lynn K. Nyhart, "Civic and Economic Zoology in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The 'Living Communities' of Karl Möbius," Isis, 1998, 89: 605-630.
2000 Emily Thompson, "Dead Rooms and Live Wires: Harvard, Hollywood, and the Deconstruction of Architectural Acoustics, 1900-1930," Isis, 1997, 88, No.4: 597-626.
2001 Mary Henninger-Voss, "Working Machines and Noble Mechanics: Guidobaldo del Monte and the Translation of Knowledge." Isis, 2000, 91, No. 2: 232-259.
2002 Daniel Schneider, "Local Knowledge, Environmental Politics, and the Founding of Ecology in the United States: Stephen Forbes and 'The Lake as Microcosm' (1887)" Isis 91, No. 3: 681-705.
2003 Peter Neushul and Zuoyue Wang, "Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: C.K. Tseng, Mariculture and the Politics of Science in Modern China" Isis 91, No. 1: 59-88.
2004 Scott Knowles & Stuart W. Leslie, "'Industrial Versailles": Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T" Isis, March 2001
2005 Marc J. Ratcliffe, "Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century" Isis, December 2004, Volume 95. pages 555-575.
2006 Maria D. Lane, "Geographers of Mars: Cartographic Inscription and Exploration Narrative in Late Victorian Representatives of the Red Planet" Isis, December 2005, Volume 96, Number 4.



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