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).About the John Desmond Bernal Prize http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/bernal The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.
The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.
Award recipients Source: Society for Social Studies of Science
Year Recipient Notable works 1981 Derek de Solla Price Little Science, Big Science 1982 Robert K. Merton The Sociology of Science 1983 Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 1984 Joseph Needham Science and Civilisation in China 1985 Joseph Ben-David The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study 1986 Michael Mulkay The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis 1987 Christopher Freeman The Economics of Industrial Innovation 1988 Dorothy Nelkin Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology 1989 Gerald Holton The Scientific Imagination 1990 Thomas Hughes Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 1991 Melvin Kranzberg By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World (with Joseph Gies) 1992 Bruno Latour Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar) 1993 David Edge Astronomy Transformed (with Michael Mulkay) 1994 Mary Douglas Natural Symbols 1995 Bernard Barber Science and the Social Order 1996 David Bloor Knowledge and Social Imagery 1997 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 Donna Haraway A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century 2001 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 || Sandra Harding || The Science Question in Feminism|- | 2014 || Lucy Suchman || Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication|- | 2015 || John Law || Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge|- | 2016 || Michael Lynch || Representation in Scientific Practice|- | 2017 || Hebe Vessuri || Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina ("Science, Technology and Society in Latin America") |- | 2018 || 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|| 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) |- | rowspan=2| 2020|| 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)
| rowspan=2| 2021|| 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)
| rowspan=2| 2022|| Arie Rip || Futures of Science and Technology in Society, Nanotechnology and its governance |- | Troy Duster || Backdoor to Eugenics (2004) |- | rowspan=2| 2023|| Joan Fujimura || Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer|- | Warwick Anderson || Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen|- | rowspan=2| 2024|| Geoffrey Bowker || Sorting things out (with Susan Leigh Star), |- | Anne Marie le Mol || The Body Multiple'' (2003) 2025https://4sonline.org/2025_paul_edwards_and_anna_tsing.php - Paul N. Edwards and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 2026 - Steven Epstein and Ulrike Felt
See also List of social sciences awards
References
External links Society for Social Studies of Science