The Pfizer Award

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2018     The courtiers' anatomists : animals and humans in Louis XIV's Paris by Anita Guerrini
2017     Fascist pigs : technoscientific organisms and the history of fascism by Tiago Saraiva
2016     Observing by hand : sketching the nebulae in the nineteenth century by Omar W. Nasim
2015     Ivan Pavlov : a Russian life in science by Daniel Todes
2014     Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany by Sachiko Kusukawa
2013     The romantic machines : utopian science and technology after Napoleon by John Tresch
2012     The crafting of 10,000 things : knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China by Dagmar Schäfer
2011     Mathematics in ancient Iraq : a social history by Eleanor Robson
2010     Leibniz : an intellectual biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza
2009     Matters of exchange : commerce, medicine, and science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook
2008     The Jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution by Deborah Harkness
2007     Drawing theories apart : the dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in postwar physics by David Kaiser
2006     Patterns of behavior : Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology by Richard W. Burkhardt
2005     Alchemy tried in the fire : Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry by William Newman and Lawrence Principe
2004     Charles Darwin : a biography, volume 2 : the power of place by Janet Browne
2003     The man who flattened the earth : Maupertuis and the sciences in the enlightenment by Mary Terrall
2002     Victorian sensation : the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the natural history of creation by James Secord
2001     The sun in the church : cathedrals as solar observatories by John Heilbron
2000     The science of energy : a cultural history of energy physics in Victorian Britain by Crosbie Smith
1999     Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
1998     Image and logic : a material culture of microphysics by Peter Galison
1997     Women scientists in America : before affirmative action, 1940-1972 by Margaret W. Rossiter
1996     Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy by Paula Findlen
1995     The business of alchemy : science and culture in the Holy Roman Empire by Pamela H. Smith
1994     The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages : medicine, science, and culture by Joan Cadden
1993     Uncertainty : the life and science of Werner Heisenberg by David Cassidy
1992     The formation of science in Japan : building a research tradition by James R. Bartholomew
1991     The politics of evolution : morphology, medicine, and reform in radical London by Adrian Desmond; Physical chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling : the making of a science in America by John W. Servos
1990     Energy and empire : a biographical study of Lord Kelvin by Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise
1989     Classical probability in the Enlightenment by Lorraine J. Daston
1988     Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior by Robert J. Richards
1987     Intellectual mastery of nature : theoretical physics from Ohm to Einstein by Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach
1986     Revolution in science by I. Bernard Cohen
1985     Mathematical astronomy in Copernicus's De revolutionibus by Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer
1984     Black Apollo of science : the life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning
1983     Never at rest : a biography of lsaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall
1982     Dawn of modern science : from the Arabs to Leonardo da Vinci by Thomas Goldstein
1981     Science and polity in France at the end of the Old Regime by Charles Coulston Gillispie
1980     Freud, biologist of the mind : beyond the psychoanalytic legend by Frank J. Sulloway
1979     Science in culture : the early Victorian period by Susan F. Cannon
1978     The chemical philosophy : Paracelsian science and medicine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Allen G. Debus; Harpers Ferry Armory and the new technology : the challenge of change by Merritt Roe Smith
1977     The kind of motion we call heat : a history of the kinetic theory of gases in the 19th century by Stephen G. Brush
1976     A history of ancient mathematical astronomy by Otto Neugebauer
1975     Claude Bernard and animal chemistry : the emergence of a scientist by Frederic L. Holmes
1974     The edge of an unfamiliar world : a history of oceanography by Susan Schlee
1973     Molecules and life : historical essays on the interplay of chemistry and biology by Joseph Fruton
1972     Force in Newton's physics : the science of dynamics in the seventeenth century by Richard S. Westfall
1971     The Lysenko affair by David Joravsky
1970     The triumph of the Darwinian method by Michael Ghiselin
1969     Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body by Margaret T. May
1968     Kepler's Somnium : the dream, or posthumous work on lunar astronomy by Edward Rosen
1967     Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology by Howard B. Adelmann
1966     Michael Faraday : a biography by L. Pearce Williams
1965     Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 by Charles D. O'Malley
1964     The Lunar Society of Birmingham : a social history of provincial science and industry in eighteenth-century England by Robert E. Schofield
1963     Medieval technology and social change by Lynn White, Jr.
1962     Lavoisier-the crucial year : the background and origin of his first experiments on combustion in 1772 by Henry Guerlac
1961     A history of metallography : the development of ideas on the structure of metal before 1890 by Cyril Stanley Smith
1960     The science of mechanics in the Middle Ages by Marshall Clagett
1959     Robert Boyle and seventeenth-century chemistry by Marie Boas Hall