Il Premio Pfizer (in inglese: Pfizer Award) è un riconoscimento annuale della History of Science Society statunitense, che lo conferisce per un eminente testo di storia della scienza, pubblicato in lingua inglese nei tre anni precedenti.
Storia Il premio fu istituito nel 1958, mentre la sua prima edizione ebbe luogo l'anno dopo. Salvo casi eccezionali, non sono stati presi in esame libri di storia della tecnologia e di storia della medicina, per evitare sovrapposizoni di competenze e di contributi economici con la Society for the History of Technology (Società per la Storia della tecnologia) e con l'American Association for the History of Medicine (Associazione americana per la storia della medicina) che già hanno un loro specifico premio.
Col passare degli anni, ha assunto una rilevanza internazionale fino a coinvolgere un centinaio di candidati nelle sue edizioni più contese. Al 2014, il premio consisteva in un contributo di 2.500 dollari, unitamente ad una medaglia.
Vincitori Si riporta di seguito l'elenco dei vincitori, a decorrere dalla prima edizione del premio che si tenne nel 1959. La lista è la seguente:
Anno Autore Libro 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 (3 vols.) 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 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 Manning Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just 1985 Noel Swerdlow e Otto Neugebauer Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's De Revolutionibus 1986 I. Bernard Cohen Revolution in Science 1987 Christa Jungnickel e 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 J. Daston Classical Probability in the Enlightenment 1990 Crosbie Smith e 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 John Servos Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America 1992 James R. Bartholomew The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition 1993 David Charles 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 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 James 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 R. Newman e 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 I. Kaiser Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics 2008 Deborah Harkness The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution 2009Nel medesimo anno, lo Pfizer award della Royal Society britannica fu vinto anche da L.G.B.. Cfr. . 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 Schäfer 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 Science2016Omar W. NasimObserving by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century 2017Tiago SaraivaFascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
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