The Suzanne J. Levinson Prize is a prize of the

History of Science Society The History of Science Society (HSS), founded in 1924, is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. The society has over 3,000 members worldwide. It publishes the quarterly journal ''Isis'' and the yearly ...

, awarded biennially and established in 2006. The prize is given to the author of "a book in the history of the life sciences and natural history," published in the previous four years. The following authors have won the Levinson Prize: *2006 Prize –

Sandra Herbert Sandra Herbert ''née'' Swanson (born April 10, 1942 in Chicago) is an American historian of science with an international reputation as an expert on Charles Darwin. The Geological Society of London awarded her the 2020 Sue Tyler Friedman Medal. B ...

, ''Charles Darwin: Geologist'' *2008 Prize –

Hannah Landecker Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969) is an Australian author and academic working as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. Education Landecker earned a Bachelor of Sci ...

, ''Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies'' *2010 Prize – Gregory Radick, ''The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language'' . *2012 Prize –

Martin Rudwick Martin John Spencer Rudwick (born 1932) is a British geologist, historian, and academic. Rudwick is an emeritus professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and an affiliated research scholar at Cambridge University's Departme ...

, ''Worlds before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform'' *2014 Prize – Daniela Bleichmar, ''Visible Empire.Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment'' *2016 Prize – Nick Hopwood, ''Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud'' *2018 Prize – Evelleen Richards, ''Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection'' *2020 Prize – Erika Lorraine Milam, ''Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America'' *2022 Prize – Jenny Bangham, ''Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics'' *2024 Prize - Ruth Rogaski, ''Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland''

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History of Science Society: Suzanne J. Levinson Prize
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