Call for Nominations -- Book Prize: 2001 BSHS Dingle Prize (British Society for the History of Science)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from MERSENNE via HOPOS-L. Russell Johnson --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:10:19 -0600 From: "Gale, George" <GaleG@UMKC.EDU> Subject: FW: BSHS Dingle Prize Sender: A Forum for Discussion of the History of the Philosophy of Science <HOPOS-L@listserv.nd.edu> From: Horrocks, Dr S.M. Sent: 08 8mars 22001 01 09:31 Dingle Prize The British Society for the History of Science invites nominations for the 2001 Dingle Prize. £300 will be awarded to the best book in the history of science (broadly construed) published in English between January 1998 and December 2000, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists. Nominations should be sent to the secretary, Dr Sally Horrocks, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK or email smh4@le.ac.uk by 1 April 2001. Previous winners of the Dingle Prize: 1997 Adrian Desmond and James Moore for Darwin, London: Penguin, 1992 1999 Steven Shapin for The Scientific Revolution, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996 Judges for 2001 Dingle Prize will be: Dr Janet Browne: Former editor of BJHS and author of a biography of Charles Darwin Ms Georgina Ferry: science journalist and biographer of Dorothy Hodgkin Dr Paula Gould: BSHS media officer Apologies for any cross posting. Sally M. Horrocks Department of Economic and Social History University of Leicester Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK tel. 0116 252 5070/ 2588 fax. 0116 252 5081 email smh4@le.ac.uk http://www.le.ac.uk/esh/staff/smh4.html --- End Forwarded Message ---