The HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry (2013–present) is given by the Division of the History of Chemistry of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

(ACS). The award was originally known as the Dexter Award (1956–2001) and then briefly as the Sidney M. Edelstein Award (2002–2009), both given by the ACS. The Dexter Award was originally established by Sidney Milton Edelstein, a founder of the Dexter Chemical Corporation, to recognize an "outstanding career of contributions to the history of chemistry". As the Dexter Award, it was sponsored by the Dexter Corporation except for its final two years, when it was sponsored by the Mildred and Sidney Edelstein Foundation. The award was briefly known as the Sidney M. Edelstein Award from 2002 to 2009, but was still given by the ACS. As such, the Sidney M. Edelstein Award should be distinguished from the Sidney Edelstein Prize (1968–present), which has been given continuously since 1968 by the

Society for the History of Technology The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is the primary professional society for historians of technology. SHOT was founded in 1958 in the United States, and it has since become an international society with members "from some thirty-five ...

to recognize "an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology."

Recipients

HIST Award (2013–present)

* 2024 James L. Marshall and Virginia R. Marshall * 2023 Geoffrey Rayner-Canham and Marelene Rayner-Canham * 2022 Marco Beretta * 2021 Mary Virginia Orna * 2020 Lawrence M. Principe * 2019 Otto Theodor Benfey * 2018 David E. Lewis * 2017 Jeffrey I. Seeman * 2016 Ursula Klein * 2015 Christoph Meinel * 2014 Ernst Homburg * 2013 William R. Newman * 2012 No Award * 2011 No Award

Sidney M. Edelstein Award (2002–2009)

* 2009 Trevor Harvey Levere * 2008 John Shipley Rowlinson * 2007 Anthony S. Travis * 2006 Peter J. T. Morris (Peter John Turnbull Morris) * 2005 William B. Jensen * 2004 Joseph B. Lambert * 2003 David M. Knight * 2002

John Parascandola John Parascandola (born July 14, 1941) is an American medical historian. He has written numerous books, including ''The Development of American Pharmacology: John J. Abel and the Shaping of a Discipline'', and held the position of Public Health ...

Dexter Award (1956–2001)

* 2001

William Arthur Smeaton William Arthur Smeaton (October 24, 1924, Broughty Ferry – January 22, 2001, Cambridge) was a British chemist and historian of science, who wrote more than seventy-five articles and several books on the history of chemistry in France in the 18 ...

* 2000 * 1999

Mary Jo Nye Mary Jo Nye (born December 5, 1944) is an American historian of science and Horning Professor in the Humanities emerita of the History Department at Oregon State University. She is known for her work on the relationships between scientific disco ...

* 1998 * 1997

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (born 7 July 1949) is a French philosopher, historian and historian of science and a professor emeritus at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She considers the study of the history of science to be essential for ...

* 1996

Keith J. Laidler Keith James Laidler (January 3, 1916 – August 26, 2003), born in England, was notable as a pioneer in chemical kinetics and authority on the physical chemistry of enzymes. Education Laidler received his early education at Liverpool College. H ...

* 1995 William H. Brock * 1994 Frederic L. Holmes * 1993 Joseph S. Fruton * 1992 John T. Stock * 1991 Owen Hannaway * 1990 Colin A. Russell * 1989 D. Stanley Tarbell * 1988 ( Lutz F. Haber) * 1987 Allen G. Debus * 1986 Robert G. W. Anderson * 1985 Robert Multhauf * 1984 * 1983

Arnold Thackray Arnold Thackray (born 30 July 1939) is an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Initially an English chemist, he moved to the United States, where he founded or extended a series of institutions, initially in Philadelphia (Penn� ...

* 1982 John H. Wotiz * 1981 Cyril Stanley Smith * 1980 * 1979

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initia ...

* 1978 George B. Kauffman * 1977 * 1976 Trevor Illtyd Williams * 1975 (Johannes Willem van Spronsen) * 1974 No Award * 1973 Bernard Jaffe * 1972

Henry Guerlac Henry Edward Guerlac (June 14, 1910 – May 29, 1985) was an American historian of science. He was a professor at Cornell University, where he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of History and a member of the Department of History. Biography Guerla ...

* 1971 * 1970 Ferenc Szabadváry * 1969

Walter Pagel Walter Traugott Ulrich Pagel (12 November 1898 – 25 March 1983) was a Germans, German pathologist and medical historian. Biography Pagel was born in Berlin, the son of the famous physician and historian of medicine Julius Leopold Pagel. He mar ...

* 1968 Aaron J. Ihde * 1967 Mary Elvira Weeks * 1966 Earle R. Caley * 1965 * 1964 Eduard Farber * 1963 Douglas McKie * 1962 Henry M. Leicester * 1961 James R. Partington * 1960 * 1959 John Read * 1958 Eva Armstrong * 1957 Williams Haynes * 1956 Ralph E. Oesper

References

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Recipients

HIST Award (2013–present)

Sidney M. Edelstein Award (2002–2009)

Dexter Award (1956–2001)

See also

References