Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize

Given by History of Science Society

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The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, named in honor of the long time director of Science Service and his wife, was established in 1985 through a long-term pledge from Miles and Audrey näytä lisää Davis. The prize consists of $1000 and a certificate. The prize honors books in the history of science directed to a wide public (including undergraduate instruction). The book must be published in English during a period of three calendar years immediately preceding the year of competition. They should be introductory in assuming no previous knowledge of the subject and in being directed to audiences of beginning students and general readers. They should introduce an entire field, a chronological period, a national tradition, or the work of a noteworthy individual. Multi-authored or edited books are eligible, whereas unrevised reprints of previously published works are not. näytä vähemmän
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Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother (tekijä: Marga Vicedo)
2022
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I (tekijä: Matthew Stanley)
2021
Pain, pleasure, and the greater good : from the Panopticon to the Skinner box and beyond (tekijä: Cathy Gere)
2020
The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (tekijä: Michael F. Robinson)
2019
Orchid: A Cultural History (tekijä: Jim Endersby)
2018
The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language (tekijä: Tania Munz)
2017
Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (tekijä: Jacob Darwin Hamblin)
2016
Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (tekijä: Martin J. S. Rudwick)
2015
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (tekijä: W. Patrick McCray)
2014
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (tekijä: David Kaiser)
2013
Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (tekijä: Mark V. Barrow Jr.)
2012
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (tekijä: Naomi Oreskes)
2011
The Day We Found the Universe (tekijä: Marcia Bartusiak)
2010
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (tekijä: Charles Seife)
2009
Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (tekijä: Helen M. Rozwadowski)
2008
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (tekijä: Matt Ridley)
2007
Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution (tekijä: Robin Marantz Henig)
2006
Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (tekijä: Alan M. Kraut)
2005
The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science) (tekijä: Jeff Hughes)
2004
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (tekijä: Ken Alder)
2003
Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (tekijä: Peter Dear)
2002
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (tekijä: Nancy Tomes)
2001
Reel Nature (tekijä: Gregg Mitman)
2000
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character (tekijä: Daniel J. Kevles)
1999
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (tekijä: Ruth Lewin Sime)
1998
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (tekijä: Richard Rhodes)
1997
Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (The Control of Nature) (tekijä: Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs)
1996
A History of Mathematics: An Introduction (2nd Edition) (tekijä: Victor J. Katz)
1995
The Beginnings of Western Science (tekijä: David C. Lindberg)
1994
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (tekijä: Adrian Desmond)
1993
Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (tekijä: John Hedley Brooke)
1992
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (tekijä: Nancy G. Siraisi)
1991
The Space Telescope: A Study of Nasa, Science, Technology, and Politics (tekijä: Robert W. Smith)
1990
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa (tekijä: Joan Jacobs Brumberg)
1989
Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science (tekijä: J. L. Heilbron)
1988
Science and the Enlightenment (tekijä: Thomas L. Hankins)
1987
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (tekijä: Daniel Boorstin)
1986

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