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Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize

History of Science Society

Description

The award is given in recognition of excellence in a research article published in Isis. Eligible articles are those published in issues of Isis three years prior to the year in which the award is given (i.e., the calendar year in which the award is given is not included). The prize may not be split between two articles.

The prize name was changed from the Derek Price Prize to the Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize in 2002 due to a generous gift from Marjorie (Madge) Webster. It was she and her husband, the late Roderick Webster, who helped endow the old Zeitlin-Verbrugge Prize, which was then renamed the Derek Price Award.

Recipients

2005 prize : Marc J. Ratcliffe, "Abraham Trembley's Strategy of Generosity and the Scope of Celebrity in the Mid-Eighteenth Century" Isis, December 2004, Volume 95, pages 555-575.