Nathan Reingold Prize


The Nathan Reingold 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.
YearRecipientUniversityEssay Title
1956Chandler FultonBrown UniversityVinegar Flies, T. H. Morgan, and Columbia University: Some Fundamental Studies in Genetics
1957No award-
1958Robert WohlPrinceton UniversityBuffon and his Project for a New Science
1959No award-
1960Harold BurstynHarvard UniversityGalileo's Attempt to Prove that the Earth Moves
1961Frederic L. HolmesHarvard UniversityElementary Analysis and the Origins of Physiological Chemistry
1962Robert H. SillimanPrinceton UniversityWilliam Thomson: Smoke Rings and Nineteenth-Century Atomism
1963Roy MacLeodCambridge UniversityRichard Owen and Evolutionism
1964Jerry B. CoughCornell UniversityTurgot, Lavoisier, and the Role of Heat in the Chemical Revolution
1965Timothy O. LipmanColumbia UniversityVitalism and Reductionism in Liebig's Physiological Thought
1966Paul FormanUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe Doublet Riddle and Atomic Physics circa 1924
1967Gerald GeisonYale UniversityThe Physical Basis of Life: The Concept of Protoplasm 1835-1870
1968Ronald S. CalingerUniversity of ChicagoThe Newtonian-Wolffian Controversy in St. Petersburg, 1725-1756
1969Park TeterPrinceton UniversityBacon's Use of the History of Science for Scientific Revolution
1970Daniel SiegelYale UniversityBalfour Stewart and Gustav Kirchhoff: Two Independent Approaches to 'Kirchhoff's Radiation Law'
1971Philip KitcherPrinceton UniversityFluxions, Limits, and Infinite Littlenesse
1972John E. LeschPrinceton UniversityGeorge John Romanes and Physiological Selection: A Post-Darwinian Debate and its Consequences
1973Robert M. FriedmanJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Methodology of Joseph Fourier and the Problematic of Analysis
1974Philip F. RehbockJohns Hopkins UniversityHuxley, Haeckel, and the Oceanographers: The Case of Bathybius haeckelii
1975Lorraine DastonColumbia UniversityBritish Responses to Psycho-physiology
1976Richard 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 Debate
1978Robert Scott BernsteinPrinceton UniversityPasteur's Cosmic Asymmetric Force: The Public Image and the Private Mind
1979Geoffrey V. SuttonPrinceton UniversityElectric Medicine and Mesmerism: The Spirit of Systems in the Enlightenment
1980Bruce J. HuntJohns Hopkins UniversityTheory Invades Practice: The British Response to Hertz
1981Larry OwensPrinceton UniversityPure and Sound Government: Laboratories, Lecture Halls, and Playing Fields in Nineteenth-Century American Science
1982Richard GillespieUniversity of PennsylvaniaAerostation and Adventurism: Ballooning in France and Britain, 1783-1786
1983Alexander JonesBrown UniversityThe Development and Transmission of 248-Day Schemes for Lunar Motion in Astronomy
1984Pauline Carpenter DearPrinceton UniversityRichard Owen and the Invention of the Dinosaur
1985Lynn NyhartUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Intellectual Geography of German Morphology, 1870-1900
1986William R. NewmanHarvard UniversityThe Defense of Technology: Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages
1987Marcos CuetoColumbia UniversityExcellence, Institutional Continuity, and Scientific Styles in the Periphery: Andean Biology in Peru
1988M. Susan LindeeCornell UniversitySexual Politics of a Textbook: The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853
1989Richard J. SorrensonPrinceton UniversityMaking a Living out of Science: John Dollond and the Achromatic Lens
1990Michael Aaron DennisJohns Hopkins UniversityReconstituting Technical Practice: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory after World War II
1991Alex Soojung-Kim PangUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Social Event of the Season: Solar Eclipse Expeditions and 19th-Century Scientific Culture
1992Sungook HongUniversity of TorontoMaking a New Role for Scientist Engineer: John Ambrose Fleming and the 'Ferranti Effect'
1993Paul LucierPrinceton UniversityCommercial Interest and Scientific Disinterestedness: Geological Consultants in Antebellum America
1994James StrickPrinceton UniversitySwimming against the Tide: Adrianus Pijper and the Debate over Bacterial Flagella, 1946-1956
1995Helen RozwadowskiUniversity of PennsylvaniaSmall World: Forging a Scientific Maritime Culture
1996James SpillerUniversity of WisconsinRe-Imagining Antarctica and the United States Antarctica Research Program: Enduring Representations of a Redemptive Science
1997No award-
1998Michael GordinHarvard UniversityThe Importation of Being Earnest
1999James EndersbyCambridge UniversityPutting Plants in their Place
2000No award-
2001Joshua BuhsUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century
2002Matthew StanleyHarvard University'An Expedition to Heal the Wounds and Desolation of War': British Astronomy, the Great War, and the 1919 Eclipse
2003Avner Ben-ZakenUCLAHebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries, and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context
2004Alistair SponselPrinceton UniversityFathoming the Depth of Charles Darwin's Theory of Coral Reef Formation: Humboldt, Hydrography, and Invertebrate Zoology
2005No award-
2006Joy RohdeUniversity of PennsylvaniaGray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Disinterested Truth in the Cold War
2007Hyung Wook ParkUniversity of Minnesota'The Thin Rats Bury the Fat Rats': Animal Husbandry, Caloric Restriction, and the Making of a Cross-Disciplinary Research Project
2008Laurel BrownColumbia UniversityThe Transmission of Arabic Astronomy to Europe and East Africa
2009Rachel N. Mason DentingerUniversity of MinnesotaMolecularizing Plant Compounds, Evolutionizing Insect-Plant Relationships: Gottfried S. Fraenkel and the Physiological Study of Insect Feeding in the 1950s
2010Helen Anne CurryYale UniversityVernacular Experimental Gardens of the Twentieth Century
2011James BergmanHarvard UniversityFighting Chance: The Science of Probability and the Forecast Controversy Between the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and the U.S. Signal Service, 1884-1890
2012Rebecca OnionUniversity of TexasThrills, Chills and Science: Home Laboratories and the Making of the American Boy, 1918-1941
2013No award--
2014Iain WattsPrinceton UniversityPhilosophical Intelligence: Letters, Print and Experiment during Napoleon's Continental Blockade
2015Evan Helpler-SmithPrinceton UniversityA way of thinking backwards’: Chemists, computers, and a once and future method
2016Adam RichterUniversity of TorontoNature Doth Not Work by Election: John Wallis on Natural and Divine Action