The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).[1] The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.[2]
The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.
Source: Society for Social Studies of Science Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
Year | Recipient | Notable works |
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1981[3] | Derek de Solla Price | Little Science, Big Science |
1982 | Robert K. Merton | The Sociology of Science |
1983[4] | Thomas S. Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
1984 | Joseph Needham | Science and Civilisation in China |
1985[5] | Joseph Ben-David | The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study |
1986[6] | Michael Mulkay | The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis |
1987[7] | Christopher Freeman | The Economics of Industrial Innovation |
1988[8] | Dorothy Nelkin | Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology |
1989 | Gerald Holton | The Scientific Imagination |
1990[9] | Thomas Hughes | Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 |
1991[2] | Melvin Kranzberg | By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World (with Joseph Gies) |
1992[10] | Bruno Latour | Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar) |
1993[11] | David Edge | Astronomy Transformed (with Michael Mulkay) |
1994[12] | Mary Douglas | Natural Symbols |
1995[12] | Bernard Barber | Science and the Social Order |
1996[13] | David Bloor | Knowledge and Social Imagery |
1997[14] | Harry Collins | The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (with Trevor Pinch) |
1998 | Barry Barnes | Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory |
1999 | Martin J.S. Rudwick | The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists |
2000[15] | Donna Haraway | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century |
2001[16] | Steven Shapin | Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer) |
2002 | Michel Callon | The Laws of the Markets |
2003 | Helga Nowotny | Re-Thinking Science (with Michael Gibbon and Peter Scott) |
2004 | Sheila Jasanoff | Controlling Chemicals |
2005 | Donald MacKenzie | Mechanizing proof: computing, risk, and trust |
2006 | Wiebe Bijker | Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change |
2007 | Ruth Schwartz Cowan | A Social History of American Technology |
2008 | Steve Woolgar | Laboratory Life (with Bruno Latour) |
2009 | Karin Knorr Cetina | Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge |
2010 | Brian Wynne | Rationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain |
2011 | Evelyn Fox Keller | Reflections on Gender and Science |
2012 | Adele Clarke | Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex' |
2013[17] | Sandra Harding | The Science Question in Feminism |
2014[18] | Lucy Suchman | Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication |
2015[19][20] | John Law | Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge |
2016[21] | Michael Lynch | Representation in Scientific Practice |
2017[22] | Hebe Vessuri | Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina ("Science, Technology and Society in Latin America") |
2018[23] | Trevor Pinch | The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (with Wiebe Bijker and Thomas P. Hughes) |
2019[24] | Emily Martin | The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987), "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" (1991) |
2020[25] | Sharon Traweek | Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1988) |
Langdon Winner | Autonomous Technology (1977), "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (1980), The Whale and the Reactor (1986) | |
2021[26] | Judy Wajcman | The Social Shaping of Technology (with Donald Mackenzie; 1985), Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (2015) |
Nelly Oudshoorn | Beyond the Natural Body (1994), The Male Pill (2003), Telecare and the Transformations of Healthcare (2011) | |
2022[27] | Arie Rip | Futures of Science and Technology in Society', Nanotechnology and its governance |
Troy Duster | Backdoor to Eugenics (2004) |