Watson Davis och Helen Miles Davis-priset

  
Detta pris ska inte förväxlas med Watson Davis Award från Association for Information Science and Technology . Watson Davis och Helen Miles Davis-priset från History of Science Society delas ut årligen för en bok som publicerats under de senaste tre åren om vetenskapens historia för en bred publik. Boken ska "introducera ett helt område, en kronologisk period, en nationell tradition eller en anmärkningsvärd individs verk." Boken kan skrivas av flera författare eller redaktörer och måste vara skriven på engelska och lämplig för en publik inklusive studenter och läsare utan specialiserad teknisk kunskap. Författaren (eller den samlade författaren) får 1 000 US-dollar och ett certifikat. Priset, som instiftades 1985, har fått sitt namn för att hedra Watson Davis och Helen Miles Davis som var vetenskapspopulärare i USA.

Pristagare av Watson Davis och Helen Miles Davis-priset

• 1986 Daniel J. Boorstin , The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (New York: Random House, 1983).
• 1987 Thomas L. Hankins , Science in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
• 1988 John Heilbron , The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck som talesman för tysk vetenskap (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
• 1989 Joan Mark, A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988). biografi om Alice Fletcher .
• 1990 Robert W. Smith , The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA Science, Technology, and Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
• 1991 Nancy G. Siraisi , Medieval and Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
• 1992 John Hedley Brooke , Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
• 1993 James Moore och Adrian Desmond , Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (London: Michael Joseph, 1991).
• 1994 David C. Lindberg , The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 BC till AD 1450 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
• 1995 Victor J. Katz , History of Mathematics: An Introduction (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
• 1996 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs och Margaret C. Jacob , Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (Humanities Press, 1995).
• 1997 Richard Rhodes , Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
• 1998 Ruth Lewin Sime , Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
• 1999 Daniel J. Kevles , The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character (WW Norton & Company, 1998).
• 2000 Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (Harvard University Press, 1999).
• 2001 Nancy Tomes , The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard University Press, 2000).
• 2002 Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Princeton University Press, 2001).
• 2003 Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (The Free Press, 2002, på Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambres meridianexpedition i Frankrike på 1790-talet)
• 2004 Jeff Hughes, The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb (Columbia University Press/Icon Books, 2003)
• 2005 Alan M. Kraut, Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (Hill och Wang, 2004). biografi om Joseph Goldberger .
• 2006 Robin Marantz Henig , Pandoras baby: Hur de första provrörsbebisarna utlöste den reproduktiva revolutionen (Houghton Mifflin Press, 2004).
• 2007 Matt Ridley , Francis Crick: Upptäckaren av den genetiska koden (Atlas Books, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006).
• 2008 Helen Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (Belknap Press, 2005).
• 2009 Charles Seife , Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (Viking Adult, 2008).
• 2010 Marcia Bartusiak , The Day We Found the Universe (Pantheon Books, 2009).
• 2011 Naomi Oreskes och Erik M. Conway , Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming ( Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
• 2012 Mark Barrow, Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
• 2013 David Kaiser , How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture and the Quantum Revival (WW Norton & Company, 2011).
• 2014 W. Patrick McCray , The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies and a Limitless Future (Princeton University Press, 2012).
• 2015 Martin Rudwick , Earth's Deep History : How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (The University of Chicago Press, 2014).
• 2016 Jacob Hamblin , Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (Oxford University Press, 2013).
• 2017 Tania Munz, The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language (University Of Chicago Press, 2016).
• 2018 Jim Endersby, Orchid: A Cultural History (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
• 2019 Michael F. Robinson, The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016).
• 2020 Cathy Gere, Pain, Pleasure and the Greater Good, from the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2017).