Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize

Prize winners of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize

• 1986 Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself.
• 1987 Thomas L. Hankins, Science in the Enlightenment.
• 1988 John Heilbron, The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science.
• 1989 Joan Mark, A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians. biography of Alice Fletcher.
• 1990 Robert W. Smith, The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA Science, Technology, and Policy.
• 1991 Nancy G. Siraisi, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice.
• 1992 John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives.
• 1993 James Moore and Adrian Desmond, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist.
• 1994 David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450.
• 1995 Victor J. Katz, History of Mathematics: An Introduction.
• 1996 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret C. Jacob, Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism.
• 1997 Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
• 1998 Ruth Lewin Sime, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics.
• 1999 Daniel J. Kevles, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character.
• 2000 Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film.
• 2001 Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.
• 2002 Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700.
• 2003 Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World
• 2004 Jeff Hughes, The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb
• 2005 Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. biography of Joseph Goldberger.
• 2006 Robin Marantz Henig, Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution.
• 2007 Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code.
• 2008 Helen Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea.
• 2009 Charles Seife, Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking.
• 2010 Marcia Bartusiak, The Day We Found the Universe.
• 2011 Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.
• 2012 Mark Barrow, Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology.
• 2013 David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture and the Quantum Revival.
• 2014 W. Patrick McCray, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future.
• 2015 Martin Rudwick, Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters.
• 2016 Jacob Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism.
• 2017 Tania Munz, The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language.
• 2018 Jim Endersby, Orchid: A Cultural History.
• 2019 Michael F. Robinson, The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent.