George Sarton Medal
The George Sarton Medal (George Sarton Medal) is the most internationally renowned award for outstanding achievements in the field of the history of science . It has been awarded by the History of Science Society (HSS) since 1955 . The society was founded in 1924 by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson . Independently of this, the University of Ghent also awards a Sarton Medal.
The first medal was awarded to the namesake George Sarton in 1955, a year before his death.
Medal holder
- 1955: George Sarton
- 1956: Charles Singer and Dorothea Waley Singer
- 1957: Lynn Thorndike
- 1958: John F. Fulton
- 1959: Richard Harrison Shryock
- 1960: Owsei Temkin
- 1961: Alexandre Koyré
- 1962: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
- 1963: Vassili Pavlovich Zoubov
- 1964: not awarded
- 1965: James Riddick Partington
- 1966: Anneliese Maier
- 1967: not awarded
- 1968: Joseph Needham
- 1969: Kurt Vogel
- 1970: Walter Pagel
- 1971: Willy Hartner
- 1972: Yabuuchi Kiyoshi
- 1973: Henry Guerlac
- 1974: I. Bernard Cohen
- 1975: René Taton
- 1976: Bern Dibner
- 1977: Derek T. Whiteside
- 1978: Adolf Pawlowitsch Juschkewitsch
- 1979: Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli
- 1980: Marshall Clagett
- 1981: Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall
- 1982: Thomas S. Kuhn
- 1983: Georges Canguilhem
- 1984: Charles Gillispie
- 1985: Paolo Rossi and Richard S. Westfall
- 1986: Ernst Mayr
- 1987: GER Lloyd
- 1988: Stillman Drake
- 1989: Gerald Holton
- 1990: A. Hunter Dupree
- 1991: Mirko Grmek
- 1992: Edward Grant
- 1993: John Heilbron
- 1994: Allen G. Debus
- 1995: Charles Rosenberg
- 1996: Loren Graham
- 1997: Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
- 1998: Thomas L. Hankins
- 1999: David C. Lindberg
- 2000: Frederic L. Holmes
- 2001: Daniel J. Kevles
- 2002: John C. Greene
- 2003: Nancy Siraisi
- 2004: Robert E. Kohler
- 2005: AI Sabra
- 2006: Mary Jo Nye
- 2007: Martin JS Rudwick
- 2008: Ronald Numbers
- 2009: John E. Murdoch
- 2010: Michael McVaugh
- 2011: Robert J. Richards
- 2012: Lorraine Daston
- 2013: Simon Schaffer
- 2014: Steven Shapin
- 2015: Robert Fox
- 2016: Katherine Park
- 2017: Garland E. Allen
- 2018: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
- 2019: M. Norton Wise