Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize

Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize is awarded for an outstanding book or article on the history of women in science, by the History of Science Society.^[1] It is named after Professor Margaret W. Rossiter, a pioneer in the field of the role of women in science.

Recipients

Source: History of Science Society

Year	Winner	Work
1987	Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez	Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
1988	Pnina Abir-Am	Synergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch, in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives, edited by Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987)
1989	Joan Mark	A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).
1990	Ann Hibner Koblitz	"Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s," Isis, 1988, 79: 208-226.
1991	Martha H. Verbrugge	Able-Bodied Womenhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
1992	Judith Coffin	Social Science Meets Sweated Labor: Reinterpreting Women's Work in Late Nineteenth-century France
1993	Barbara Duden	The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991).
1994	Londa Schiebinger	Why Mammals Are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century National History, American Historical Review, 1993, 98: 382-411.
1995	Elizabeth Lunbeck	The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).
1996	Ida Stamhuis	A Female Contribution to Early Genetics: Tine Tammes and Mendel's Laws for Continuous Characters, Journal of the History of Biology, 1995, 28: 495-531.
1997	Margaret W. Rossiter	Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
1998	Mary Terrall	Émilie du Chätelet and the Gendering of Science, History of Science, 1995, 33: 283-310.
1999	Linda J. Lear	Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt and Company, 1997).
2000	Naomi Oreskes	Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science, Osiris, 1996, 11: 87-113.
2001	Charlotte Furth	A Flourishing Yin: Chinese Medical History, 960-1665 (University of California Press, 2000).
2002	Ruth Oldenziel	"Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the U.S., 1870-1945," in Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s, eds. Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann (Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 11-50.
2003	Ellen Singer More	Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 (Harvard University Press, 2000).
2004	Paula Findlen	The Scientist's Body: The Nature of Woman Philosopher in Enlightenment Italy in The Faces of Nature in Enlightenment Europe, (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2003), pp. 211-236.
2005	Kathleen Broome Williams	Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, The Naval Institute Press.
2006	Arleen Tuchman	Situating Gender, Isis, March 2004, volume 85, no.1.
2007	Katharine Park	Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection, Zone Books
2008	Sara Stidstone Gronim	What Jane Knew: A Woman Botanist in the Eighteenth Century,, Journal of Women's History 2007, volume 19, no. 3.
2009	Monica H. Green	Making Women's Medicine Masculine. The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology (Oxford University Press, 2008).
2010	Marsha L. Richmond	The 'Domestication' of Heredity: The Familial Organization of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895-1910 (Journal of the History of Biology, 2006).
2011	Yi-Li Wu	Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2010).
2012	Peter Kastor and Conevery Valencius	Sacagawea’s Cold: Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, (Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2008).
2013	Sally Gregory Kohlstedt	Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930, (The University of Chicago Press, 2010).
2014	Kimberly A. Hamlin	The ‘Case of a Bearded Woman’: Hypertrichosis and the Construction of Gender in the Age of Darwin, American Quarterly 63, no. 4 (Dec 2011): 985-81.
2015	Amy Sue Bix	Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2014)

References

1. http://hssonline.org/about/honors/the-margaret-w-rossiter-history-of-women-in-science-prize/