Lois Wladis Hoffman,
for The Value of Children to Parents and the Decrease in Family Size
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.
1978
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
