The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, named in honor of the longtime director of Science Service and his wife, was established in 1985 through a long-term pledge from Miles and Audrey Davis. The prize consists of $1000 and a certificate; it honors books in the history of science that are directed to wide public audiences or to undergraduate teaching. Books published during the three years prior to the award date are eligible for nomination. | |
Winners of The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize are: | |
1986 | Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (New York: Random House, 1983). |
1987 | Thomas L. Hankins, Science in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). |
1988 | John L. Heilbron, The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). |
1989 | Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emergence ofAnorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988). |
1990 | Robert W. Smith, The Space Telescope: A Study ofNASA Science, Technology, and Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). |
1991 | Nancy G. Siraisi, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). |
1992 | John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). |
1993 | James Moore and 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 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). |
1995 | Victor J. Katz, A History of Mathematics, An Introduction (New York: Harper Collins, 1993). |
1996 | Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and 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 J. Kevles, The Baltimore Case: A trial of Politics, Science and Character (W.W. Norton & Company, 1998). |
2000 | Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (Harvard University Press, 1999) |
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