John Frederick Lewis Award
2007
Lionel Gossmanfor his monograph, The Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's “Italia und Germania”
2006
Vincent Ilardifor 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"