Nathan Reingold Prize

The Nathan Reingold Prize (formerly Ida & Henry Schuman Prize) is given every year to a graduate student for having written an original essay in the history of science. It is awarded by the History of Science Society.

Year Recipient University Essay Title1956Chandler Fulton Brown UniversityVinegar Flies, T. H. Morgan, and Columbia University: Some Fundamental Studies in Genetics1957No award1958Robert WohlPrinceton UniversityBuffon and his Project for a New Science1959No award1960Harold BurstynHarvard UniversityGalileo's Attempt to Prove that the Earth Moves1961Frederic L. HolmesHarvard UniversityElementary Analysis and the Origins of Physiological Chemistry1962Robert H. SillimanPrinceton UniversityWilliam Thomson: Smoke Rings and Nineteenth-Century Atomism1963Roy MacLeodCambridge UniversityRichard Owen and Evolutionism1964Jerry B. CoughCornell UniversityTurgot, Lavoisier, and the Role of Heat in the Chemical Revolution1965Timothy O. LipmanColumbia UniversityVitalism and Reductionism in Liebig's Physiological Thought1966Paul FormanUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe Doublet Riddle and Atomic Physics circa 19241967Gerald GeisonYale UniversityThe Physical Basis of Life: The Concept of Protoplasm 1835-18701968Ronald S. Calinger University of ChicagoThe Newtonian-Wolffian Controversy in St. Petersburg, 1725-1756 1969Park TeterPrinceton UniversityBacon's Use of the History of Science for Scientific Revolution1970Daniel SiegelYale UniversityBalfour Stewart and Gustav Kirchhoff: Two Independent Approaches to 'Kirchhoff's Radiation Law'1971Philip KitcherPrinceton UniversityFluxions, Limits, and Infinite Littlenesse1972John E. LeschPrinceton UniversityGeorge John Romanes and Physiological Selection: A Post-Darwinian Debate and its Consequences1973Robert M. FriedmanJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Methodology of Joseph Fourier and the Problematic of Analysis1974Philip F. RehbockJohns Hopkins UniversityHuxley, Haeckel, and the Oceanographers: The Case of Bathybius haeckelii1975Lorraine DastonColumbia UniversityBritish Responses to Psycho-physiology1976Richard F. HirschUniversity of WisconsinThe Riddle of the Gaseous Nebulae: What Are They Made of?1977Thomas JobeUniversity of ChicagoThe Role of the Devil in Restoration Science: The Webster-Ward Witchcraft Debate1978Robert Scott BernsteinPrinceton UniversityPasteur's Cosmic Asymmetric Force: The Public Image and the Private Mind1979Geoffrey V. SuttonPrinceton UniversityElectric Medicine and Mesmerism: The Spirit of Systems in the Enlightenment1980Bruce J. HuntJohns Hopkins UniversityTheory Invades Practice: The British Response to Hertz1981Larry OwensPrinceton UniversityPure and Sound Government: Laboratories, Lecture Halls, and Playing Fields in Nineteenth-Century American Science1982Richard GillespieUniversity of PennsylvaniaAerostation and Adventurism: Ballooning in France and Britain, 1783-17861983Alexander JonesBrown UniversityThe Development and Transmission of 248-Day Schemes for Lunar Motion in Astronomy1984Pauline Carpenter DearPrinceton UniversityRichard Owen and the Invention of the Dinosaur1985Lynn NyhartUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Intellectual Geography of German Morphology, 1870-19001986William R. NewmanHarvard UniversityThe Defense of Technology: Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages1987Marcos CuetoColumbia UniversityExcellence, Institutional Continuity, and Scientific Styles in the Periphery: Andean Biology in Peru1988M. Susan LindeeCornell UniversitySexual Politics of a Textbook: The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-18531989Richard J. SorrensonPrinceton UniversityMaking a Living out of Science: John Dollond and the Achromatic Lens1990Michael Aaron DennisJohns Hopkins UniversityReconstituting Technical Practice: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory after World War II1991Alex Soojung-Kim PangUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Social Event of the Season: Solar Eclipse Expeditions and 19th-Century Scientific Culture1992Sungook HongUniversity of TorontoMaking a New Role for Scientist Engineer: John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) and the 'Ferranti Effect'1993Paul LucierPrinceton UniversityCommercial Interest and Scientific Disinterestedness: Geological Consultants in Antebellum America1994James StrickPrinceton UniversitySwimming against the Tide: Adrianus Pijper and the Debate over Bacterial Flagella, 1946-19561995Helen RozwadowskiUniversity of PennsylvaniaSmall World: Forging a Scientific Maritime Culture1996James SpillerUniversity of WisconsinRe-Imagining Antarctica and the United States Antarctica Research Program: Enduring Representations of a Redemptive Science1997No award1998Michael GordinHarvard UniversityThe Importation of Being Earnest1999James EndersbyCambridge UniversityPutting Plants in their Place2000No award2001Joshua BuhsUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century2002Matthew StanleyHarvard University'An Expedition to Heal the Wounds and Desolation of War': British Astronomy, the Great War, and the 1919 Eclipse2003Avner Ben-ZakenUCLAHebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries, and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context2004Alistair SponselPrinceton UniversityFathoming the Depth of Charles Darwin's Theory of Coral Reef Formation: Humboldt, Hydrography, and Invertebrate Zoology2005No award2006Joy RohdeUniversity of PennsylvaniaGray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Disinterested Truth in the Cold War2007Hyung Wook ParkUniversity of Minnesota'The Thin Rats Bury the Fat Rats': Animal Husbandry, Caloric Restriction, and the Making of a Cross-Disciplinary Research Project2008Laurel BrownColumbia UniversityThe Transmission of Arabic Astronomy to Europe and East Africa2009Rachel N. Mason DentingerUniversity of MinnesotaMolecularizing Plant Compounds, Evolutionizing Insect-Plant Relationships: Gottfried S. Fraenkel and the Physiological Study of Insect Feeding in the 1950s2010Helen Anne CurryYale UniversityVernacular Experimental Gardens of the Twentieth Century2011James BergmanHarvard UniversityFighting Chance: The Science of Probability and the Forecast Controversy Between the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and the U.S. Signal Service, 1884-18902012Rebecca OnionUniversity of TexasThrills, Chills and Science: Home Laboratories and the Making of the American Boy, 1918-19412013No award2014Iain WattsPrinceton UniversityPhilosophical Intelligence: Letters, Print and Experiment during Napoleon's Continental Blockade2015Evan Helpler-SmithPrinceton UniversityA way of thinking backwards’: Chemists, computers, and a once and future method2016Adam RichterUniversity of TorontoNature Doth Not Work by Election: John Wallis (1616-1703) on Natural and Divine Action

References