Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize

Der Watson Davis a​nd Helen Miles Davis Prize d​er History o​f Science Society w​ird jährlich für Bücher d​er vergangenen d​rei Jahre, d​ie Wissenschaftsgeschichte e​inem breiteren Publikum vermitteln, vergeben. Es sollte i​n Englisch veröffentlicht s​ein und für Anfänger o​hne große Vorkenntnisse zugänglich s​ein (auch für Undergraduates a​n Universitäten). Er i​st mit 1000 Dollar dotiert u​nd zu Ehren d​es Ehepaars d​en Watson Davis u​nd Helen Miles Davis vergeben, d​ie als Wissenschaftspopularisatoren i​n den USA bekannt waren.

Preisträger
  • 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 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 Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988). Über Alice Fletcher.
  • 1990 Robert W. Smith, The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA 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 und 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, History of Mathematics: An Introduction (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
  • 1996 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs und 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).
  • 2001 Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard University Press, 2000).
  • 2002 Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700 (Princeton University Press, 2001).
  • 2003 Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (The Free Press, 2002, über die Meridianexpedition im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts von Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre)
  • 2004 Jeff Hughes, The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb (Columbia University Press/Icon Books, 2003)
  • 2005 Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (Hill and Wang, 2004). Über Joseph Goldberger.
  • 2006 Robin Marantz Henig, 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, The Day We Found the Universe (Pantheon Books, 2009).
  • 2011 Naomi Oreskes und 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 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011).
  • 2014 W. Patrick McCray, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (Princeton University Press, 2012).
  • 2015 Martin Rudwick, Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (The University of Chicago Press, 2014).
  • 2016 Jacob Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (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: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016).
  • 2020 Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
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