The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).[1] The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.[2]
The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.
Source: Society for Social Studies of Science
| Year | Recipient | Notable works |
|---|---|---|
| 1981[3] | Little Science, Big Science | |
| 1982 | The Sociology of Science | |
| 1983[4] | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
| 1984 | Science and Civilisation in China | |
| 1985[5] | The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study | |
| 1986[6] | The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis | |
| 1987[7] | The Economics of Industrial Innovation | |
| 1988[8] | Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology | |
| 1989 | The Scientific Imagination | |
| 1990[9] | Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 | |
| 1991 | By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World (with Joseph Gies) | |
| 1992[10] | Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar) | |
| 1993[11] | David Edge | Astronomy Transformed (with Michael Mulkay) |
| 1994[12] | Natural Symbols | |
| 1995 | Bernard Barber | Science and the Social Order |
| 1996[13] | Knowledge and Social Imagery | |
| 1997[14] | The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (with Trevor Pinch) | |
| 1998 | Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory | |
| 1999 | The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists | |
| 2000[15] | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century | |
| 2001[16] | Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer) | |
| 2002 | The Laws of the Markets | |
| 2003 | Re-Thinking Science (with Michael Gibbon and Peter Scott) | |
| 2004 | Controlling Chemicals | |
| 2005 | Mechanizing proof: computing, risk, and trust | |
| 2006 | Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change | |
| 2007 | A Social History of American Technology | |
| 2008 | Laboratory Life (with Bruno Latour) | |
| 2009 | Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge | |
| 2010 | Rationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain | |
| 2011 | Reflections on Gender and Science | |
| 2012 | Adele Clarke | Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex |
| 2013[17] | The Science Question in Feminism | |
| 2014[18] | Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication | |
| 2015[19] [20] | Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge | |
| 2016[21] | Representation in Scientific Practice | |
| 2017[22] | Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina ("Science, Technology and Society in Latin America") | |
| 2018[23] | The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (with Wiebe Bijker and Thomas P. Hughes) | |
| 2019[24] | The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987), "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" (1991) | |
| 2020[25] | Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1988) | |
| Autonomous Technology (1977), "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (1980), The Whale and the Reactor (1986) | ||
| 2021[26] | The Social Shaping of Technology (with Donald Mackenzie; 1985), Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (2015) | |
| Beyond the Natural Body (1994), The Male Pill (2003), Telecare and the Transformations of Healthcare (2011) | ||
| 2022[27] | Futures of Science and Technology in Society, Nanotechnology and its governance | |
| Backdoor to Eugenics (2004) | ||
| 2023[28] | Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer | |
| Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen | ||
| 2024[29] | Sorting things out (with Susan Leigh Star), | |
| The Body Multiple (2003) | ||