2020 |
Cathy Gere,
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the
Skinner Box and Beyond
(University of Chicago Press, 2017) |
2019 |
Michael F. Robinson,
The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that
Changed a Continent
(Oxford University Press, 2016) |
2018 |
Jim Endersby,
Orchid: A Cultural History (University of Chicago Press, 2016). |
2017 |
Tania Munz, The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the
Honeybee Language (University of Chicago Press, 2016). |
2016 |
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (Oxford University Press, 2013). |
2015 |
Martin Rudwick, Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (The University of Chicago Press, 2014). |
2014 |
W. Patrick McCray, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space
Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (Princeton University Press, 2012). |
2013 |
David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture and the
Quantum Revival (W.W. Norton & Company, 2011). |
2012 |
Mark Barrow, Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson
to the Age of Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 2009). |
2011 |
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth
on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2010). |
2010 |
Marcia Bartusiak, The Day We Found the Universe (Pantheon Books, 2009). |
2009 |
Charles Seife, Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of
Wishful Thinking (Viking Adult, 2008). |
2008 |
Helen Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep
Sea (Belknap Press, 2005). |
2007 |
Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Atlas Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006). |
2006 |
Robin Marantz Henig, Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the
Reproductive Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Press, 2004). |
2005 |
Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (Hill and Wang, 2004). |
2004 |
Jeff Hughes, The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb (Columbia University Press/Icon Books, 2003) |
2003 |
Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error
that Transformed the World (The Free Press, 2002). |
2002 |
Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions,
1500-1700 (Princeton University Press, 2001). |
2001 |
Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American
Life (Harvard University Press, 2000). |
2000 |
Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film (Harvard University Press, 1999). |
1999 |
Daniel J. Kevles, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character (W.W. Norton & Company, 1998). |
1998 |
Ruth Lewin Sime, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). |
1997 |
Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster, 1995). |
1996 |
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret C. Jacob, Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (Humanities Press, 1995). |
1995 |
Victor J. Katz, History of Mathematics: An Introduction (New York: Harper Collins, 1993). |
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). |
1993 |
James Moore and Adrian Desmond, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (London: Michael Joseph, 1991). |
1992 |
John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). |
1991 |
Nancy G. Siraisi, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge
and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). |
1990 |
Robert W. Smith, The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA Science, Technology, and
Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). |
1989 |
Joan Mark, A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American
Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988). |
1988 |
John L. Heilbron, The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German
Science (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). |
1987 |
Thomas L. Hankins, Science in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). |
1986 |
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and
Himself (New York: Random House, 1983). |