Watson Davis og Helen Miles Davis Award

Denne prisen skal ikke forveksles med Watson Davis-prisen fra Association for Information Science and Technology.

The Watson Davis og Helen Miles Davis Prize er en årlig utmerkelse tildelt av History of Science Society for en bok utgitt i de siste tre årene på vitenskapshistorie og ment for et bredt publikum. Boken skal "presentere et helt felt, en kronologisk periode, en nasjonal tradisjon eller et bemerkelsesverdig individs arbeid" . Boken kan skrives av flere forfattere eller forlag. Den må være skrevet på engelsk og egnet for et publikum som består av studenter og lesere uten spesialisert teknisk kunnskap. Forfatteren (eller den samlede forfatteren) mottar $ 1000 og et sertifikat. Prisen, etablert i 1985, er oppkalt etter Watson Davis og Helen Miles Davis, populariserere av vitenskap i USA.

Prisvinnere

• 1986 Daniel J. Boorstin , The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himsel f (New York: Random House, 1983).
• 1987 Thomas L. Hankins  (de) , Science in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
• 1988 John Heilbron , The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
• 1989 Joan Mark , A Stranger in her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indianers (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988). biografi om Alice Fletcher .
• 1990 Robert W. Smith  (en) , The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA Science, Technology, and Polic y (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
• 1991 Nancy Siraisi  (en) , Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
• 1992 John Hedley Brooke  (in) , Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
• 1993 James Moore og Adrian Desmond , Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (London: Michael Joseph, 1991).
• 1994 David C. Lindberg , The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 BC to AD 1450 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
• 1995 Victor J. Katz , History of Mathematics: An Introduction (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
• 1996 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs og Margaret C. Jacob , Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (Humanities Press, 1995).
• 1997 Richard Rhodes , Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
• 1998 Ruth Lewin Sime , Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
• 1999 Daniel Kevles  (i) , The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character (WW Norton & Company, 1998).
• 2000 Gregg Mitman , Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (Harvard University Press, 1999).
• 2001 Nancy Tomes  (en) , The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Lif e (Harvard University Press, 2000).
• 2002 Peter Dear , Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Princeton University Press, 2001).
• 2003 Ken Alder  (de) , The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (The Free Press, 2002, on Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre's expedition to measure the meridian in France in the years 1790)
• 2004 Jeff Hughes , The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb (Columbia University Press / Icon Books, 2003)
• 2005 Alan M. Kraut , Goldbergers War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (Hill og Wang, 2004). Biografi av Joseph Goldberger .
• 2006 Robin Marantz Henig  (en) , Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Press, 2004).
• 2007 Matt Ridley , Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Atlas Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006).
• 2008 Helen Rozwadowski , Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (Belknap Press, 2005).
• 2009 Charles Seife , Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (Viking Adult, 2008).
• 2010 Marcia Bartusiak  (en) , The Day We Found the Universe (Pantheon Books, 2009).
• 2011 Naomi Oreskes og Erik M. Conway , Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
• 2012 Mark Barrow , Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
• 2013 David Kaiser , How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture and the Quantum Revival (WW Norton & Company, 2011).
• 2014 W. Patrick McCray  (en) , The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Forfulgt Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (Princeton University Press, 2012).
• 2015 Martin JS Rudwick , Jordens dype historie: Hvordan det ble oppdaget og hvorfor det betyr noe (The University of Chicago Press, 2014).
• 2016 Jacob Hamblin , Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalis m (Oxford University Press, 2013).
• 2017 Tania Munz , The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language (University Of Chicago Press, 2016).
• 2018 Jim Endersby , Orchid: A Cultural History (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
• 2019 Michael F. Robinson , The Lost White Tribe: Utforskere, forskere og teorien som forandret et kontinent (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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(fr) Denne artikkelen er delvis eller helt hentet fra den engelske Wikipedia- artikkelen med tittelen "  Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize  " ( se forfatterliste ) .

1. Watson Davis Award, Association for Information Science and Technology
2. Watson Davis og Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society, offisiell nettside
3. Ann Blair , "  2003 HSS Prize Citations  ", Isis , vol.  95, n o  toJuni 2004( les online )

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