John Frederick Lewis Award

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 tie

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"


1996

Joseph R. McElrath,
for "The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898"


1995 tie

Herbert H. Kaplan,
for "Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II"

Corinne Comstock Weston,
for "The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846-1922"


1994 tie

Paul Bushkovitch and Maija Jansson,
for "England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614"

Barbara Nevling Porter,
for "Images, Power and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian Policy"


1993

David Gilman Romano,
for "Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek 'Stadion'"


1992

Sister Irma Corcoran,
for "Thomas Holme, 1624-1695, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania"


1991

William O. Oldson,
for "A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania"


1990

Joseph S. Fruton,
for "Contrasts in Scientific Style"

Kenneth M. Setton,
for "Venice, Austria, and the Turkes in the Seventeenth Century"


1989

Marshall Clagett,
for "Ancient Egyptian Science"


1988

Paul M. Lloyd,
for "From Latin to Spanish"


1987

Darwin Stapleton,
for "The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America"


1986

Maija Jansson,
for "Proceedings in Parliament 1614"


1985

William Roach,
for "The Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chretien de Troyes," Volume 5


1984

Kenneth M. Setton,
for "The Papacy and the Levant," Volumes 3 and 4


1981

Marshall Clagett,
for "Archimedes in the Middle Ages," Volume 4


1979

Roland Mushat Frye,
for "Milton's Paradise Lost and the Visual Arts"


1978

Lois Wladis Hoffman,
for "The Value of Children to Parents and the Decrease in Family Size"


1977

Choh Hao Li,
for "Hormones of the Adenohypophysis"


1976

Owen Gingerich,
for "From Copernicus to Kepler:Heliocentrism as Model and as Reality"


1975

Frederick Albert Pottle,
for "Wordsworth in the Present Day"


1974

George Kennan,
for "The Historiography of the Early Political Career of Stalin"


1973

Neal A. Weber,
for "Gardening Ants, the Attines"


1972

Thomas Gold,
for "The Nature of the Lunar Surface: Recent Evidence"


1971

Paul Weiss,
for "Panta Rhei and So Flow Our Nerves"


1970

Elizabeth M. Ramsey,
for "New Appraisal of an old Organ: The Placenta"


1969

Herbert L. Ratcliffe,
for "Contributions of a Zoo to an Ecology of Disease"


1968

Adolf A. Berle,
for "The Laws of Power: An Approach to Its Systematic Study"


1967

Millard Meiss,
for "Sleep in Venice. Ancient Myths and Renaissance Proclivities"


1966

William J. Robbins,
for "Topophysis, a Problem in Somatic Inheritance"


1965

Robert D. Dripps,
for "General Anesthesia and the Circulation"


1964

E. A. Speiser,
for "Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization"


1963

Edwin Bidwell Wilson,
for "The Last Unpublished Notes of Williard J. Gibbs"


1962

E . Wyllys Andrews,
for "Excavations at Dzibilchaltun, Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico"


1961

Crawford Hallock Greenewalt,
for "The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers"


1960

G. Ledyard Stebbins,
for "The Role of Hybridization in Evolution"


1959

Frank Lappin Horsfall,
for "Can Viruses Be Managed?"


1958

Jesse W. Beams,
for "The Magnetically Supported Equlibrium Ultracentrifuge"


1957

Kenneth M. Setton,
for "The Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance"


1956

Geroid T. Robinson,
for "Stalin's Vision of Utopia: the Future Communist Society"


1955

John C. Trever,
for "Studies in the Problem of Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls"


1954

Robert Livingston Schuyler,
for "British Imperial Theory and American Territorial Policy - A Suggested Relationship"


1953

Bart J. Bok,
for "Studies of the Southern Milky Way"


1952

Otto Neugebauer,
for "The Babylonian Method for the Computation of the Last Visibilities of Mercury"


1951

Joseph J. Spengler,
for "Economic Factors in the Development of Densely Populated Areas"


1950

Sewall Wright,
for "Population Structure in Evolution"


1949

Wallace O. Fenn,
for "Physiology of Exposures to Abnormal Concentrations of the Respiratory Gases"


1948

Donald R. Young,
for "The Technique of Race Relations" and "Limiting Factors in the Development of the Social Sciences"


1946

Enrico Fermi,
for "The Development of the First Chain Reacting Pile"


1944

Samuel Noah Kramer,
for "Sumerian Literature: a Preliminary Survey of the Oldest Literature in the World," "Sumerian Mythology: a Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C."


1943

George Gaylord Simpson,
for "The Beginnings of Vertebrate Paleontology in North America"


1941

George Howard Parker,
for "Integumentary Color Changes of Elasmobranch Fishes of Mustelus," "Melanophore Responses and Blood Supply (Vasomotor Changes)," "On the Neurohumors of the Color Changes in Catfishes and on Fats and Oils as Protective Agents for such Substances"


1940

Earle Radcliffe Caley,
for "The Composition of Ancient Greek Bronze Coins"


1939

Henry Norris Russell,
for "Stellar Energy"


1938

Arthur J. Dempster,
for "New Methods in Mass Spectroscopy" and "Further Experiments on the Mass Analysis of the Chemical Elements"


1937

Ralph E. Cleland,
for "Cyto-Taxonomic Studies on Certain Oenotheras from California" and "A Cytogenetic and Taxonomic Attack upon the Phylogeny and Systematics of Oenothera (Evening Primrose) with Special Reference to the Sub-genus Onagra"

 

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