George_Sarton_Medal Knowpia

The George Sarton Medal is the most prestigious award given by the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955. It is awarded to an historian of science from the international community who became distinguished for "a lifetime of scholarly achievement" in the field.

The medal was designed by Bern Dibner and is named after George Sarton, the founder of the journal Isis and one of the founders of modern history of science.^[1]

The Sarton Medalists are:^[1]

1955 – George Sarton
1956 – Charles Singer and Dorothea Waley Singer
1957 – Lynn Thorndike
1958 – John Farquhar Fulton
1959 – Richard Shryock
1960 – Owsei Temkin
1961 – Alexandre Koyré
1962 – E. J. Dijksterhuis
1963 – Vassili Zoubov
1964 – not awarded
1965 – J. R. Partington
1966 – Anneliese Maier
1967 – not awarded
1968 – Joseph Needham
1969 – Kurt Vogel
1970 – Walter Pagel
1971 – Willy Hartner
1972 – Kiyosi Yabuuti
1973 – Henry Guerlac
1974 – I. Bernard Cohen
1975 – René Taton
1976 – Bern Dibner
1977 – Derek T. Whiteside
1978 – Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich
1979 – Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli
1980 – Marshall Clagett
1981 – A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall
1982 – Thomas S. Kuhn
1983 – Georges Canguilhem
1984 – Charles Coulston Gillispie
1985 – Co-winners: Paolo Rossi and Richard S. Westfall
1986 – Ernst Mayr
1987 – G.E.R. Lloyd
1988 – Stillman Drake
1989 – Gerald Holton
1990 – A. Hunter Dupree
1991 – Mirko D. Grmek
1992 – Edward Grant and George A. van Sande
1993 – John L. Heilbron
1994 – Allen G. Debus
1995 – Charles E. 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 Colton Greene
2003 – Nancy Siraisi
2004 – Robert E. Kohler
2005 – A. I. Sabra
2006 – Mary Jo Nye
2007 – Martin J. S. Rudwick
2008 – Ronald L. Numbers
2009 – John E. Murdoch
2010 – Michael McVaugh
2011 – Robert J. Richards
2012 – Lorraine Daston^[2]
2013 – Simon Schaffer
2014 – Steven Shapin
2015 – Robert Fox^[3]
2016 – Katharine Park
2017 – Garland E. Allen
2018 – Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
2019 – M. Norton Wise
2020 – Jim Bennett
2021 – Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
2022 – Margaret W. Rossiter
2023 – Theodore Porter^[4]

References edit

^ ^a ^b "The Society: The George Sarton Medal". Retrieved January 24, 2015.
^ "Humanitas. Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: Lorraine Daston". Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
^ "Robert Fox Awarded the History of Science Society's Sarton Medal". Chemical Heritage Foundation. November 24, 2015. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016.
^ "Theodore Porter honored with the 2023 Sarton Medal". Princeton University Press. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023.

External links edit

Sarton Medal webpage from the History of Science Society
History of Science Society, The Sarton Medalists Archived 2015-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
History of Science Society. "2007 Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
History of Science Society. "2008 Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2008-11-26.

[medal-1] "The Society: The George Sarton Medal". Retrieved January 24, 2015.

[2] "Humanitas. Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: Lorraine Daston". Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2012-11-26.

[CHFSarton-3] "Robert Fox Awarded the History of Science Society's Sarton Medal". Chemical Heritage Foundation. November 24, 2015. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016.

[4] "Theodore Porter honored with the 2023 Sarton Medal". Princeton University Press. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2023.

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