John Desmond Bernal Prize

The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).^[1] The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.^[2]

The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.

Award recipients

Source: Society for Social Studies of Science Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine

Year	Recipient	Notable works
1981[3]	Derek de Solla Price	Little Science, Big Science
1982	Robert K. Merton	The Sociology of Science
1983[4]	Thomas S. Kuhn	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1984	Joseph Needham	Science and Civilisation in China
1985[5]	Joseph Ben-David	The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study
1986[6]	Michael Mulkay	The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis
1987[7]	Christopher Freeman	The Economics of Industrial Innovation
1988[8]	Dorothy Nelkin	Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology
1989	Gerald Holton	The Scientific Imagination
1990[9]	Thomas Hughes	Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930
1991[2]	Melvin Kranzberg	By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World (with Joseph Gies)
1992[10]	Bruno Latour	Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar)
1993[11]	David Edge	Astronomy Transformed (with Michael Mulkay)
1994[12]	Mary Douglas	Natural Symbols
1995[12]	Bernard Barber	Science and the Social Order
1996[13]	David Bloor	Knowledge and Social Imagery
1997[14]	Harry Collins	The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (with Trevor Pinch)
1998	Barry Barnes	Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory
1999	Martin J.S. Rudwick	The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
2000[15]	Donna Haraway	A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
2001[16]	Steven Shapin	Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer)
2002	Michel Callon	The Laws of the Markets
2003	Helga Nowotny	Re-Thinking Science (with Michael Gibbon and Peter Scott)
2004	Sheila Jasanoff	Controlling Chemicals
2005	Donald MacKenzie	Mechanizing proof: computing, risk, and trust
2006	Wiebe Bijker	Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
2007	Ruth Schwartz Cowan	A Social History of American Technology
2008	Steve Woolgar	Laboratory Life (with Bruno Latour)
2009	Karin Knorr Cetina	Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge
2010	Brian Wynne	Rationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain
2011	Evelyn Fox Keller	Reflections on Gender and Science
2012	Adele Clarke	Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex'
2013[17]	Sandra Harding	The Science Question in Feminism
2014[18]	Lucy Suchman	Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication
2015[19][20]	John Law	Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge
2016[21]	Michael Lynch	Representation in Scientific Practice
2017[22]	Hebe Vessuri	Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina ("Science, Technology and Society in Latin America")
2018[23]	Trevor Pinch	The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (with Wiebe Bijker and Thomas P. Hughes)
2019[24]	Emily Martin	The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987), "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" (1991)
2020[25]	Sharon Traweek	Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1988)
	Langdon Winner	Autonomous Technology (1977), "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (1980), The Whale and the Reactor (1986)
2021[26]	Judy Wajcman	The Social Shaping of Technology (with Donald Mackenzie; 1985), Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (2015)
	Nelly Oudshoorn	Beyond the Natural Body (1994), The Male Pill (2003), Telecare and the Transformations of Healthcare (2011)
2022[27]	Arie Rip	Futures of Science and Technology in Society, Nanotechnology and its governance
	Troy Duster	Backdoor to Eugenics (2004)
2023[28]	Joan Fujimura	Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer
	Warkick Anderson	Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
2024[29]	Geoffrey Bowker	Sorting things out (with Susan Leigh Star),
	Anne Marie le Mol	The Body Multiple (2003)

See also

• List of social sciences awards

References

1. About the John Desmond Bernal Prize http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/bernal Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
2. Kranzberg, Melvin (1992). "Acceptance". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 17 (3): 350–395. doi:10.1177/016224399201700309. JSTOR 690103. S2CID 220878819.
3. Turner, G. L'e. (1984). "Obituary: Derek John de Solla Price 1922 – 1983". Annals of Science. 41 (2): 105–107. doi:10.1080/00033798400200431.
4. Kuhn, Thomas (1983). "Reflections on Receiving the John Desmond Bernal Award". 4S Review. 1 (4): 26–30. JSTOR 690305.
5. "News". 4S Review. 3 (4): 30–36. 1985. JSTOR 690334.
6. Mulkay, Michael (1986). "A Black Day for the 4S". Science & Technology Studies. 4 (3/4): 41–43. JSTOR 690413.
7. "Obituary: Christopher Freeman". Daily Telegraph. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
8. Nelkin, Dorothee; Lindee, M. Susan (1996). ""Genes Made Me Do It": The Appeal of Biological Explanations". Politics and the Life Sciences. 15 (1): 95–97. doi:10.1017/s0730938400019778. JSTOR 4236198. PMID 11655029.
9. Rip, Arie (1991). "Citation for Thomas P. Hughes, 1990 Bernal Prize Recipient" (PDF). Science, Technology, & Human Values. 16 (3): 382–386. doi:10.1177/016224399101600307. JSTOR 689922. S2CID 144654841.
10. Rip, Arie (1993). "Citation for Bruno Latour". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 18 (3): 379–383. doi:10.1177/016224399301800307. JSTOR 689727. S2CID 145713282.
11. MacKenzie, Donald (2003). "Eloge: David Owen Edge, 1932-2003". Isis. 94 (3): 498–499. doi:10.1086/380659. JSTOR 10.1086/380659.
12. Restivo, Sal; Dowty, Rachel (2008). "Obituary: Bernard Barber and Mary Douglas". Social Studies of Science. 38 (4): 635–640. doi:10.1177/0306312708095712. JSTOR 25474599.
13. Restivo, Sal (1997). "Citation for Bloor". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 22 (3): 369–370. doi:10.1177/016224399702200305. JSTOR 689892. S2CID 144063518.
14. Knorr-Cetina, Karin (1998). "Citation for H.M. Collins". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 23 (4): 491–493. doi:10.1177/016224399802300407. JSTOR 690144. S2CID 143504255.
15. Bould, Mark; Butler, Andrew; Roberts, Adam (2009). Fifty key figures in science fiction. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415439503.
16. Reuell, Peter (2014-11-18). "A lifetime of scholarship, recognized". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
17. "Bernal Prize 2013: Sandra Harding". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
18. "Bernal Prize 2014: Lucy Suchman". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
19. "International award for OU Emeritus professor who combines the technical with the social". Open University. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
20. "Bernal Prize 2015: John Law". www.4sonline.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
21. "Bernal Prize 2016: Michael Lynch". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
22. "Bernal Prize 2017: Hebe Vessuri". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
23. "Bernal Prize 2018: Trevor Pinch". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
24. "Bernal Prize 2019: Emily Martin". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
25. "Bernal Prize 2020: Sharon Traweek and Langdon Winner". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
26. "Bernal Prize 2021: Judy Wajcman and Nelly Oudshoorn". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
27. "Bernal Prize 2021: Arie Rip and Troy Duster". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
28. "Bernal Prize 2021: Joan Fujimura and Warkick Anderson". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
29. "Bernal Prize 2021: Geoffrey Bowker and Anne Marie le Mol". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2022-11-14.

External links

• Society for Social Studies of Science