John Desmond Bernal Prize
The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the field of Science and Technology Studies. The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.
The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.
Award recipients
Source:| Year | Recipient | Notable works |
| 1981 | Derek de Solla Price | Little Science, Big Science |
| 1982 | Robert K. Merton | The Sociology of Science |
| 1983 | Thomas S. Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| 1984 | Joseph Needham | Science and Civilisation in China |
| 1985 | Joseph Ben-David | The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study |
| 1986 | Michael Mulkay | The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis |
| 1987 | Christopher Freeman | The Economics of Industrial Innovation |
| 1988 | Dorothy Nelkin | Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology |
| 1989 | Gerald Holton | The Scientific Imagination |
| 1990 | Thomas Hughes | Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 |
| 1991 | Melvin Kranzberg | By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World |
| 1992 | Bruno Latour | Laboratory Life |
| 1993 | David Edge | Astronomy Transformed |
| 1994 | Mary Douglas | Natural Symbols |
| 1995 | Bernard Barber | Science and the Social Order |
| 1996 | David Bloor | Knowledge and Social Imagery |
| 1997 | Harry Collins | The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science |
| 1998 | Barry Barnes | Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory |
| 1999 | Martin J.S. Rudwick | The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists |
| 2000 | Donna Haraway | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century |
| 2001 | Steven Shapin | Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life |
| 2002 | Michel Callon | The Laws of the Markets |
| 2003 | Helga Nowotny | Re-Thinking Science |
| 2004 | Sheila Jasanoff | Controlling Chemicals |
| 2005 | Donald MacKenzie | ' |
| 2006 | Wiebe Bijker | Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change |
| 2007 | Ruth Schwartz Cowan | A Social History of American Technology |
| 2008 | Steve Woolgar | Laboratory Life |
| 2009 | Karin Knorr Cetina | Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge |
| 2010 | Brian Wynne | Rationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain |
| 2011 | Evelyn Fox Keller | Reflections on Gender and Science |
| 2012 | Adele Clarke | Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex |
| 2013 | Sandra Harding | The Science Question in Feminism |
| 2014 | Lucy Suchman | Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication |
| 2015 | John Law | Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge |
| 2016 | Michael Lynch | Representation in Scientific Practice |
| 2017 | Hebe Vessuri | Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina |
| 2018 | Trevor Pinch | The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology |