Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science

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The Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science has been awarded by the Leopoldina since 1999 for the history of science .

The prize was donated by Eugen Seibold and Ilse Seibold , is endowed with up to 2000 euros and is awarded every two years. The prize is intended for young scientists and has been awarded since 2005 for outstanding dissertations at the request of the donors. It is named after the science historian Georg Uschmann .

Award winners

  • 1999: Klaus Hentschel
  • 2001: Torsten Rüting for Pavlov and the New Man. Discourses and disciplining in Soviet Russia (Oldenburg Verlag)
  • 2003: Carsten Reinhardt for his habilitation thesis Physical Instrumentation and its Impact on Chemistry: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry, 1950-1980
  • 2005: Gerhard Rammer for his dissertation The Nazification and Denazification of Physics at the University of Göttingen
  • 2007: Matthias Schemmel for his dissertation The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot 's work on motion as an example of preclassical mechanics (Springer Verlag 2008)
  • 2009: Milena Wazeck for her dissertation Einstein's opponents . The public controversy surrounding the theory of relativity in the 1920s (Campus Verlag 2009)
  • 2011: Viola Kristin Balz for her dissertation Between Effect and Experience. Rethinking psychiatric drugs. A historical analysis of the effectiveness structures of neuroleptics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950–1980 .
  • 2013: Elisabeth Rinner for her dissertation on the genesis of spatial coordinates in the geography of Klaudios Ptolemaios
  • 2015: Nils Güttler for his dissertation (2012): Das Kosmoskop. Maps and their users in 19th century plant geography (Wallstein Verlag 2014)
  • 2017: Gunthild Peters for her dissertation Zwei Gulden vom Fuder. Mathematics of barrel measurement and practical sighting knowledge in the 15th century
  • 2019: Linda Richter for her dissertation semiotics, physics, organics. Forms of Knowledge of Weather, 1750–1850

Web links

  1. ^ Plants in climate change, memory research and the history of meteorology: Leopoldina honors young scientists for special research achievements. In: leopoldina.org. Leopoldina , September 4, 2019, accessed on September 5, 2019 .