John Desmond Bernal Prize


The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.
The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.

Award recipients

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YearRecipientNotable works
1981Derek de Solla PriceLittle Science, Big Science
1982Robert K. MertonThe Sociology of Science
1983Thomas S. KuhnThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1984Joseph NeedhamScience and Civilisation in China
1985Joseph Ben-DavidThe Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study
1986Michael MulkayThe Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis
1987Christopher FreemanThe Economics of Industrial Innovation
1988Dorothy NelkinSelling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology
1989Gerald HoltonThe Scientific Imagination
1990Thomas HughesNetworks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930
1991Melvin KranzbergBy the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World
1992Bruno LatourLaboratory Life
1993David EdgeAstronomy Transformed
1994Mary DouglasNatural Symbols
1995Bernard BarberScience and the Social Order
1996David BloorKnowledge and Social Imagery
1997Harry CollinsThe Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science
1998Barry BarnesScientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory
1999Martin J.S. RudwickThe Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
2000Donna HarawayA Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
2001Steven ShapinLeviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
2002Michel CallonThe Laws of the Markets
2003Helga NowotnyRe-Thinking Science
2004Sheila JasanoffControlling Chemicals
2005Donald MacKenzie'
2006Wiebe BijkerOf bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change
2007Ruth Schwartz CowanA Social History of American Technology
2008Steve WoolgarLaboratory Life
2009Karin Knorr CetinaEpistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge
2010Brian WynneRationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain
2011Evelyn Fox KellerReflections on Gender and Science
2012Adele ClarkeDisciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex
2013Sandra HardingThe Science Question in Feminism
2014Lucy SuchmanPlans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication
2015John LawPower, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge
2016Michael LynchRepresentation in Scientific Practice
2017Hebe VessuriCiencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina
2018Trevor PinchThe Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
2019Emily MartinThe Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles"
2020Sharon TraweekBeamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists
2020Langdon WinnerAutonomous Technology, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", The Whale and the Reactor
2021Judy WajcmanThe Social Shaping of Technology, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
2021Nelly OudshoornBeyond the Natural Body, The Male Pill, Telecare and the Transformations of Healthcare
2022Arie RipFutures of Science and Technology in Society, Nanotechnology and its governance
2022Troy DusterBackdoor to Eugenics
2023Joan FujimuraCrafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer
2023Warwick AndersonCollectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
2024Geoffrey BowkerSorting things out,
2024Anne Marie le MolThe Body Multiple