The Paul Bunge Prize is an international award for seminal and lasting contributions to the history of scientific instruments. Endowed in 1993 by the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920–1996), glass chemist at
in Mainz, and collector and historian of antique chemical balances. The name of the prize commemorates the leading German maker of precision balances in the nineteenth century
(1839–1888).
* 2025 Paola Bertucci, New Haven, USA
* 2024 Peter Heering, Flensburg; Rebekah Higgitt, Edinburgh, UK
* 2023
Robert W. Smith, Alberta, Canada
* 2022
Matthew L. Jones, New York, USA
* 2021
Liba Taub
Liba Taub (born 1954) is an American historian of science, who was Curator and Director of the Whipple Museum at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2022.
Education
Taub completed her doctorate in 1987 at the University of Oklahoma.
Car ...
, Cambridge, UK
* 2020 Simon Werrett, London, UK
* 2019
Sara J. Schechner, Cambridge, MA
* 2018 Anthony John Turner, Le Mesnil-le-Roi, France
* 2017
Simon Schaffer
Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of '' The B ...
, Cambridge, UK
* 2016
Robert G. W. Anderson, Cambridge, UK
* 2015 Brian Gee (posthumously), Chelsea, UK
* 2014 Cyrus C. M. Mody, Houston, TX
* 2013 Marco Beretta, Bologna, Italy
* 2012 David Pantalony, Ottawa, Canada
* 2011 Matteo Valleriani, Berlin, Germany
* 2010 Henning Schmidgen, Weimar, Germany
* 2009 Jutta Schickore, Bloomington, IN
* 2008
Alison Morrison-Low Dr Alison Morrison-Low is a retired Principal Curator for Science at National Museums Scotland.
Background
Morrison-Low is a director for the Brisbane Observatory Trust and has been a director for the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust, the Brit ...
, Edinburgh, UK
* 2007 Charlotte Bigg, Berlin, Germany
* 2006 Davis Baird, Columbia, SC; Inge Keil, Augsburg, Germany
* 2005
Myles W. Jackson, Salem, OR
* 2004 Jobst Broelmann, Munich, Germany; Carsten Reinhardt, Regensburg, Germany
* 2003 Sean F. Johnston, Glasgow, UK
* 2002 Paolo Brenni, Florence, Italy
* 2001
Jim Bennett, Oxford, UK
* 2000 Alan Q. Morton, London, UK; Richard J. Sorrenson, Bloominton, IN
* 1999
Nicolas Rasmussen
Nicolas "Nic" Rasmussen (born 1962) is a historian of modern life sciences, and a professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. With major interests in the history of amphetamines, the history of d ...
, Sydney, Australia
* 1998 Robert Bud, London, UK; Deborah J. Warner, Washington, DC
* 1997
Silvio A. Bedini, Washington, DC
* 1996
David A. King, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
* 1995 Gerald L'Estrange Turner, Oxford, UK
* 1994
Otto Sibum
Heinz Otto Sibum (29 March 1956) is a German historian of science, Hans Rausing Professor and Director of the Office for History of Science at the University of Uppsala.
Biography
H. Otto Sibum holds a doctoral degree in physics (Dr.rer.nat.) fro ...
, Cambridge, UK; Matthias Dörries, Munich, Germany
* 1992–1993
Klaus Hentschel
Klaus Hentschel (born 4 April 1961) is a German physicist, historian of science and professor. He is the head of the University of Stuttgart's History of Science and Technology section of its History department.
Life and work
Born in Bad Nauhei ...
, Hamburg, Germany; Mara Miniati, Florence, Italy