John Pickstone Prize

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The John Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years by the British Society for the History of Science for the best academic book on the history of science in English. It has been awarded since 2014, is endowed with 300 pounds and named after John Pickstone (1944–2014). For books on the history of science for a wider audience, the Society awards the Dingle Prize , which alternates annually with the John Pickstone Prize .

Award winners

  • 2014 Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday for Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain (Cambridge, Mass .: The MIT Press, 2013).
  • 2016 Anne Hardy for Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880–1975 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
  • 2018 Michael Wintroub for The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Web links

  1. ^ Winner of the 2018 Pickstone Prize . In: BSHS (ed.): Twitter . September 13, 2018 ( twitter.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).