Award-Winning Books
In addition to the prizes included on this page, many other book prizes are awarded through subject-specific groups and societies, like the following:
HSS (History of Science Society) - Waston Davis Prize
Each book listed below has been awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize from the History of Science Society, honoring "books in the history of science directed to a wide public (including undergraduate instruction)."
The most recent winners are included here; for a list of all award-winning books from 1986 to the present, see: Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize.
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I by
Publication Date: 20192021 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeThe Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent by
Publication Date: 20162019 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeEarth's Deep History by
Publication Date: 20142015 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize and 2015 Dingle PrizeHow the Hippies Saved Physics by
Publication Date: 20122013 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeMerchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by
Publication Date: 20102011 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeThe Day We Found the Universe by
Publication Date: 20092010 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeSun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by
Publication Date: 20082009 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeFathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by
Publication Date: 20052008 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeFrancis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by
Publication Date: 20062007 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizePandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by
Publication Date: 20042006 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeGoldberger's War: The Life and World of a Public Health Crusader by
Publication Date: 20032005 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeThe Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb by
Publication Date: 20032004 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeThe Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World by
Publication Date: 20022003 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeRevolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 by
Publication Date: 2001Also available in 2nd edition
2002 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeReel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film by
Publication Date: 19992000 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeThe Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by
Publication Date: 19981999 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) - Edelstein Prize
Each book listed below has been awarded the Edelstein Prize by the Society for the History of Technology. This prize is "awarded to the author of an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology." For more on this book prize, see: The Edelstein Prize
After the Map: cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century by
Publication Date: 20162017 Edelstein PrizeSensing Changes : Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 by
Publication Date: 20102011 Edelstein PrizeThe Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control by
Publication Date: 20082010 Edelstein PrizeHeroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 by
Publication Date: 20072008 Edelstein PrizeEarthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 by
Publication Date: 20062007 Edelstein PrizeThe Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by
Publication Date: 20022005 Edelstein PrizeInventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America by
Publication Date: 20032004 Edelstein PrizeWar and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring by
Publication Date: 20012003 Edelstein PrizeThe Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present by
Publication Date: 20002002 Edelstein PrizeThe Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (Online access) by
Publication Date: 19982001 Edelstein PrizeTechnology and Gender - Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (Online access) by
Publication Date: 1997Also available as E-Book
1999 Edelstein Prize
HSS (History of Science Society) - Pfizer Award
Each book listed below has been recognized by the History of Science Society as "an outstanding book dealing with the history of science."
The most recent winners are included here; for a list of all Pfizer Award books from 1959 to the present, see: History of Science Society: Pfizer Award.
The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano by
Publication Date: 20192021 Pfizer PrizeClimate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by
Publication Date: 20182019 Pfizer PrizeMatters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by
Publication Date: 20072009 Pfizer AwardThe Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by
Publication Date: 20072008 Pfizer AwardDrawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics by
Publication Date: 20052007 Pfizer AwardPatterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology by
Publication Date: 20052006 Pfizer AwardAlchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry by
Publication Date: 20022005 Pfizer AwardThe Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment by
Publication Date: 20022003 Pfizer AwardVictorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" by
Publication Date: 20002002 Pfizer AwardThe Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Online access) by
Publication Date: 19992001 Pfizer Award- The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics byPublication Date: 19982000 Pfizer Award
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Online access) by
Publication Date: 1998Also available as and eBook
1999 Pfizer Award
BSHS (British Society for the History of Science) - Hughes Prize (formerly Dingle Prize)
Each book listed below has been awarded the Hughes Prize (or, previously, the Dingle Prize) by the British Society for the History of Science. This prize honors "the best book in the history of science (broadly construed) published in English . . . which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists." For more see: Hughes Prize.
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by
Publication Date: 20172019 Hughes PrizeEarth's Deep History by
Publication Date: 20142015 Dingle Prize and 2015 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis PrizeElegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry by
Publication Date: 2005Also available as eBook
2007 Dingle PrizeThe Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World by
Publication Date: 20022003 Dingle Prize
4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) - Rachel Carson Prize
Each book listed here has been awarded the Rachel Carson Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science. This prize is for a "book length work of social or political relevance in the area of science and technology studies." For more on his book prize, see: Rachel Carson Prize.
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga by
ISBN: 0262349663Publication Date: 20192021 Rachel Carson PrizeRadiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination by
Publication Date: 20162019 Rachel Carson PrizeLife Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor by
Publication Date: 20152018 Rachel Carson PrizeHIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone by
Publication Date: 20152017 Rachel Carson PrizeGolden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition by
Publication Date: 20122014 Rachel Carson PrizeJust One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China by
Publication Date: 20082010 Rachel Carson PrizePrescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease by
Publication Date: 20072009 Rachel Carson PrizePicturing Personhood - Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity by
Publication Date: 20042006 Rachel Carson PrizeSuspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification by
Publication Date: 20012003 Rachel Carson PrizeFrom Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism by
Publication Date: 20012001 Rachel Carson PrizeThe Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest by
Publication Date: 19982000 Rachel Carson PrizeImpure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Online access) by
Publication Date: 19961999 Rachel Carson PrizeThe Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (Online access) by
ISBN: 9780226851761Publication Date: 1997Also available as an eBook
1998 Rachel Carson Prize
SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) - Hacker Prize
Each book listed below has been awarded the Sally Hacker Prize by the Society for the History of Technology. This prize honors "exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience." For more on this book prize, see: The Hacker Prize.
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death and Legacy of One Laptop per Child by
Publication Date: 20192020 Sally Hacker PrizeFixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by
Publication Date: 20102011 Sally Hacker PrizeRiver of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by
Publication Date: 20032004 Sally Hacker PrizeWar, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor by
Publication Date: 20002001 Sally Hacker PrizeListening In: Radio and the American Imagination (Online access) by
Publication Date: 2004 edition2000 Sally Hacker Prize
4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) - Ludwik Fleck Prize
Each book listed below has been awarded the Ludwik Fleck Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science. This prize is "awarded annually for the best book in the area of science and technology studies." For more on this book prize, see: Ludwik Fleck Prize
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s by
Publication Date: 20092011 Ludwik Fleck PrizeInclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research by
Publication Date: 20072009 Ludwik Fleck PrizeSick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty by
ISBN: 0822336715Publication Date: 20062006 Ludwik Fleck PrizeBiomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine by
Publication Date: 20032005 Ludwik Fleck PrizeScience and an African Logic by
ISBN: 0226853918Publication Date: 2001-12-152003 Ludgwig Fleck PrizeThe Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by
Publication Date: 19982002 Ludwik Fleck PrizeWho Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code by
Publication Date: 20002002 Ludwik Fleck PrizeDisciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and "The Problems of Sex" by
Publication Date: 1998Also available as eBook
2000 Ludwik Fleck PrizeModest-Witness Second-Millenium Femaleman Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience by
Publication Date: 19971999 Ludwik Fleck PrizeDiscipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution by
Publication Date: 19951998 Ludwik Fleck PrizeTrust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by
Publication Date: 19951997 Ludwik Fleck PrizeA Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by
Publication Date: 19941996 Ludwik Fleck Prize