Hughes Prize

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The Hughes Prize (until 2017 the Dingle Prize ) is awarded every two years by the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) for the best understandable book on the history of science in English. It has been awarded since 1997, on the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary, and is worth £ 300.

It was initially named after Herbert Dingle and now bears the name of Jeff Hughes , a former president of the BSHS. The Society also awards the John Pickstone Prize for academic books every two years (alternating with the Hughes Prize) .

Award winners

  • 1997 Adrian Desmond , James R. Moore for Darwin (London, Penguin 1992)
  • 1999 Steven Shapin for The Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press 1996)
  • 2001 Deborah Cadbury for The Dinosaur Hunters (London: Fourth Estate 2000)
  • 2003 Ken Alder for The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (London: Little, Brown 2002)
  • 2005 Stephen Pumfrey for Latitude and the Magnetic Earth: the True Story of Queen Elizabeth's Most Distinguished Man of Science , Icon Books 2003
  • 2007 Philip Ball for Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (London: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005)
  • 2009 Thomas Dixon for Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008).
  • 2011 Patricia Fara for Science. A Four Thousand Year History (Oxford University Press 2009).
  • 2013 David Wright for Downs: The History of a Disability (Oxford University Press 2011).
  • 2015 Martin Rudwick for Earth's Deep History: how it was discovered and why it matters (University of Chicago Press 2014).
  • 2017 Andrea Wulf for The Invention of Nature: the Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science (John Murray 2015).
  • 2019 James Delbourgo for Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Harvard University Press 2017) .

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