Frederic L. Holmes

Awards and honors

• 1962 — Schumann Prize of the History of Science Society
• 1975 — Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society
• 1978 — William H. Welch Medal of American Association for the History of Medicine
• 1981–1983 — President of the History of Science Society
• 1994 — Dexter Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
• 1994 — Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2000 — George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society
• 2000 — Member of the American Philosophical Society

  Selected publications

• Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry, Harvard University Press 1974
• Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: an exploration of scientific creativity, Princeton University Press, 1985;
• Antoine Lavoisier - the next crucial year: or, the sources of his quantitative method in chemistry, Princeton University Press 1997;
• , Oxford University Press 1991
• , Oxford University Press 1993
• Meselson, Stahl and the Replication of DNA: A history of the most beautiful experiment in biology, Yale University Press 2001;
• Investigative Pathways: pattern and stages in the careers of experimental scientists, Yale University Press 2004
• with William C. Summers: Reconceiving the gene: Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics, Yale University Press 2006;