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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]

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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

YearRecipientNotable 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 EdgeAstronomy Transformed (with Michael Mulkay)
1994 [12] Mary Douglas Natural Symbols
1995 [12] Bernard BarberScience 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
2012Adele ClarkeDisciplining 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)

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  18. ↑ "Bernal Prize 2014: Lucy Suchman". www.4sonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
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  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.
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