Neil L. Rudenstine
in recognition of his book The House of Barnes: The Man, The Collection, The Controversy.
John Frederick Lewis Award
Established by a gift from the widow of John F. Lewis, to honor the outstanding maritime lawyer who played a major role in various cultural institutions in Philadelphia. Since 1981 the award has recognized the best book published by the Society in a given year.
2012
2011
Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker
in recognition of their book, Astronomy in the Maya Codices.
2010
A. Mark Smith
in recognition of his book, Alhacen on Refraction: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of Book 7 of Alhacen's De Aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir.
2009
Stephen G. Brush
in recognition of his book Choosing Selection: The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970
2008
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
for her monograph, Franz Boas and W.E.B. DuBois at Atlanta University, 1906
2007
Lionel Gossman
for his monograph, The Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's “Italia und Germania”
2006
Vincent Ilardi
for his monograph, "Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes"
2005
Derek S. Linton,
for his monograph, "Emil von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy."
2004
Edward J. Olszewski,
for "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII"
2003
James E. McClellan,
for Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1973
2002
Gunther S. Stent,
for Paradoxes of Free Will
2001
A. Mark Smith,
for Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of the First Three Books of Alhacen's De aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir
2000
June Z. Fullmer (posthumous),
for Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Scientist
1999
Francesca Rochberg,
for Babylonian Horoscopes
1998
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.,
for Patriot-Improvers, Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, 1743-1769
Martin W. Daly,
for The Sirdar. Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire in the Middle East
