George Sarton Medal Explained

The George Sarton Medal is the most prestigious award given by the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955. It is awarded to a historian of science from the international community who became distinguished for "a lifetime of scholarly achievement" in the field.

The medal was designed by Bern Dibner and is named after George Sarton, the founder of the journal Isis and one of the founders of modern history of science.^[1]

The Sarton Medalists are:^[1]

• 1955 – George Sarton
• 1956 – Charles Singer and Dorothea Waley Singer
• 1957 – Lynn Thorndike
• 1958 – John Farquhar Fulton
• 1959 – Richard Shryock
  • • • 1960 – Owsei Temkin 1961 – Alexandre Koyré 1962 – E. J. Dijksterhuis 1963 – Vassili Zoubov
• 1964 – not awarded
  • • 1965 – J. R. Partington 1966 – Anneliese Maier 1967 – not awarded
    • 1968 – Joseph Needham 1969 – Kurt Vogel 1970 – Walter Pagel
• 1971 – Willy Hartner
• 1972 – Kiyosi Yabuuti
• 1973 – Henry Guerlac
  • 1974 – I. Bernard Cohen 1975 – René Taton
  • 1976 – Bern Dibner 1977 – Derek T. Whiteside
• 1978 – Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich
• 1979 – Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli
• 1980 – Marshall Clagett
• 1981 – A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall
  • • 1982 – Thomas S. Kuhn 1983 – Georges Canguilhem 1984 – Charles Coulston Gillispie
• 1985 – Co-winners: Paolo Rossi and Richard S. Westfall
  • 1986 – Ernst Mayr 1987 – G.E.R. Lloyd
    • 1988 – Stillman Drake 1989 – Gerald Holton 1990 – A. Hunter Dupree
• 1991 – Mirko D. Grmek
  • • • 1992 – Edward Grant and George A. van Sande 1993 – John L. Heilbron 1994 – Allen G. Debus 1995 – Charles E. Rosenberg
• 1996 – Loren Graham
• 1997 – Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs
  • 1998 – Thomas L. Hankins 1999 – David C. Lindberg
• 2000 – Frederic L. Holmes
• 2001 – Daniel J. Kevles
• 2002 – John Colton Greene
• 2003 – Nancy Siraisi
• 2004 – Robert E. Kohler
• 2005 – A. I. Sabra
• 2006 – Mary Jo Nye
• 2007 – Martin J. S. Rudwick
• 2008 – Ronald L. Numbers
• 2009 – John E. Murdoch
• 2010 – Michael McVaugh
• 2011 – Robert J. Richards
• 2012 – Lorraine Daston^[2]
• 2013 – Simon Schaffer
• 2014 – Steven Shapin
• 2015 – Robert Fox^[3]
• 2016 – Katharine Park
• 2017 – Garland E. Allen
• 2018 – Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
• 2019 – M. Norton Wise
• 2020 – Jim Bennett
• 2021 – Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
• 2022 – Margaret W. Rossiter
• 2023 – Theodore Porter^[4]

See also

• List of history awards
• List of general science and technology awards

External links

• Sarton Medal webpage from the History of Science Society
• History of Science Society, The Sarton Medalists
• Web site: 2007 Award Winners . History of Science Society . History of Science Society . 2008-11-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081112062146/http://www.hssonline.org/about/society_awards2007.html . 2008-11-12 .
• Web site: 2008 Award Winners . History of Science Society . History of Science Society . 2008-11-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090707081704/http://www.hssonline.org/about/society_awards2008.html . 2009-07-07 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Society: The George Sarton Medal. January 24, 2015. February 20, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150220220053/http://www.hssonline.org/about/honors/sarton-medal/. dead.
2. Web site: Humanitas. Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: Lorraine Daston. . 2012-11-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023004328/http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/humanitas/professor-lorraine-daston . 2012-10-23 . dead .
3. Web site: Robert Fox Awarded the History of Science Society's Sarton Medal. Chemical Heritage Foundation. November 24, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160712192918/http://www.chemheritage.org/about/news-and-press/press-releases/2015-11-24-robert-fox-awarded-the-history-of-science-societys-sarton-medal.aspx. July 12, 2016.
4. Web site: Theodore Porter honored with the 2023 Sarton Medal . . 7 July 2023 . 3 November 2023 .