The Pfizer Award was established in 1958 through the generosity of Pfizer,
Inc., a diversified research-based company. The award consists of a
medal and $2,500 now given each year to the author of an outstanding book
in the history of science published in English during the previous three
years (initially to the best book published in the previous year). Winners
of the Pfizer Award are as follows.
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| 1959 |
Marie Boas Hall, Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1958). |
| 1960 |
Marshall Clagett, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle
Ages (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959). |
| 1961 |
Cyril Stanley Smith, A History of Metallography: The Development
of ldeas on the Structure of Metal before 1890 (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1960). |
| 1962 |
Henry Guerlac, Lavoisier, The Crucial Year: The Background
and Origin of His Firsr Experiments on Combustion in 1772 (Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961)
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| 1963 |
Lynn White, Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1962). |
| 1964 |
Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A
Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century
England (London: Oxford University Press, 1963). |
| 1965 |
Charles D. O'Malley, Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964).
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| 1966 |
L. Pearce Williams, Michael Faraday: A Biography (New
York: Basic Books, 1965).
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| 1967 |
Howard B. Adelmann, Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution
of Embryology (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966). |
| 1968 |
Edward Rosen, Kepler's Somnium (Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1967). |
| 1969 |
Margaret T. May, Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of
the Body (Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968). |
| 1970 |
Michael Ghiselin, The Triumph of the Darwinian Method
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969). |
| 1971 |
David Joravsky, The Lysenko Affair (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1970). |
| 1972 |
Richard S. Westfall, Force in Newton's Physics: The Science
of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century (New York: American Elsevier,
1971). |
| 1973 |
Joseph Fruton, Molecules and Life: Historical Essays on
the Interplay ofChemistry and Biology (New York: John Wiley, 1972). |
| 1974 |
Susan Schlee, The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History
of Oceanography (New York: Dutton, 1973).
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| 1975 |
Frederic L. Holmes, Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry:
The Emergence of a Scientist (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1974). |
| 1976 |
Otto Neugebauer, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy
(3 vols.) (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975).
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| 1977 |
Stephen G. Brush, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat
(Amsterdam/New York: North-Holland, 1976). |
| 1978 |
Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science
and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York:
Science History Publications, 1977).
Merritt Roe Smith, Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge
of Change (Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 1977). |
| 1979 |
Susan F. Cannon, Science in Culture: The Early Victorian
Period (New York: Science History Publications, 1978). |
| 1980 |
Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond
the Psychoanalytic Legend (New York: Basic Books, 1979). |
| 1981 |
Charles Coulston Gillispie, Science and Polity in France
at the End of the Old Regime (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1980).
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| 1982 |
Thomas Goldstein, Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs
to Leonardo da Vinci (New York: Hougbton Mifllin, 1980). |
| 1983 |
Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of lsaac
Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). |
| 1984 |
Kenneth R. Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of
Ernest Everett Just (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983). |
| 1985 |
Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer, Mathematical Astronomy
in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984). |
| 1986 |
I. Bernard Cohen, Rcvolution in Science (Cambridge,
Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985). |
| 1987 |
Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach, Intellectual
Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein; Volume I: The
Torch of Mathematics, 1800-1870; Volume II: The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics,
1870-1925 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986). |
| 1988 |
Robert J. Richards, Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionnry
Theories of Mind and Behavior (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1981). |
| 1989 |
Lorraine J. Daston, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
(Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1988). |
| 1990 |
Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise, Energy and Empire: A
Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989). |
| 1991 |
Adrian Desmond, The Politics of Evolution: Morphology,
Medicine, and Reform in Radical London (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1989).
John W. Servos, Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making
of a Science in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1990). |
| 1992 |
James R. Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan:
Building a Research Tradition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). |
| 1993 |
David Cassidy, Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner
Heisenberg (New York: Freeman, 1992). |
| 1994 |
Joan Cadden, The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle
Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). |
| 1995 |
Pamela H. Smith, The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture
in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1994). |
| 1996 |
Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting,
and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1995). |
| 1997 |
Margaret W. Rossiter, Women Scientists in America: Before
Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1995). |
| 1998 |
Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). |
| 1999 |
Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order
of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books, 1998). |
| 2000 |
Crosbie Smith, The Science of Energy: A Cultural History
of Energy Physics (University of Chicago Press, 1998), |