Pfizer Award The Pfizer Award is awarded annually by the History of Science Society "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science"Recipients 1959 Marie Boas Hall , Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry . 1960 Marshall Clagett , The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages . 1961 Cyril Stanley Smith , A History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metal before 1890 . 1962 Henry Guerlac , Lavoisier, The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772 1963 Lynn White, Jr ., Medieval Technology and Social Change . 1964 Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England . 1965 Charles D. O'Malley, Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 . 1966 L. Pearce Williams, Michael Faraday: A Biography . 1967 Howard B. Adelmann, Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology . 1968 Edward Rosen , Kepler's Somnium . 1969 Margaret T. May, Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body . 1970 Michael Ghiselin , The Triumph of the Darwinian Method . 1971 David Joravsky , The Lysenko Affair . 1972 Richard S. Westfall, Force in Newton's Physics: The Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century . 1973 Joseph Fruton , Molecules and Life: Historical Essays on the Interplay ofChemistry and Biology . 1974 Susan Schlee , The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography . 1975 Frederic L. Holmes, Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry: The Emergence of a Scientist . 1976 Otto Neugebauer , A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy . 1977 Stephen G. Brush, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat . 1978 Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . 1978 Merritt Roe Smith , Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change. 1979 Susan Faye Cannon , Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period . 1980 Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend . 1981 Charles Coulston Gillispie , Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime . 1982 Thomas Goldstein , Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs to Leonardo da Vinci . 1983 Richard S. Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of lsaac Newton . 1984 Kenneth R. Manning, . 1985 Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer, Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus . 1986 I. Bernard Cohen, Revolution in Science . 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 . 1988 Robert J. Richards, Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior . 1989 Lorraine Daston , Classical Probability in the Enlightenment . 1990 Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise, Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin . 1991 Adrian Desmond , The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London . 1991 Servos, John W., , Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1990. 1992 James R. Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition . 1993 David C. Cassidy, Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg . 1994 Joan Cadden , The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages . 1995 Pamela H. Smith, The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire . 1996 Paula Findlen , Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy . 1997 Margaret W. Rossiter, Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 . 1998 Peter Galison , Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics . 1999 Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park , Wonders and the Order of Nature , 1150-1750. 2000 Crosbie Smith, The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics . 2001 John Heilbron , The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories . 2002 Jim Secord , Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. 2003 Mary Terrall , The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment . 2004 Janet Browne , Charles Darwin: The Power of Place 2005 William Newman and Lawrence Principe , Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry 2006 Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology 2007 David Kaiser , Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics 2008 Deborah Harkness , The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution 2009 Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age 2010 Maria Rosa Antognazza , Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography 2011 Eleanor Robson , Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History 2012 Dagmar Schaefer , The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China 2013 John Tresch , The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon 2014 Sachiko Kusukawa , Picturing the book of nature: Image, text and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany 2015 Daniel Todes , Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science 2016 Omar W. Nasim, Observing by Hand. Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century 2017 Tiago Saraiva , Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
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