Pfizer Award Winners

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Winners

	The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano by Maria M. Portuondo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Pfizer Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity by Theodore M Porter 3.26 avg rating — 58 ratings Pfizer Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings Pfizer Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris by Anita Guerrini really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings Pfizer Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fascist Pigs : Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism by Tiago Saraiva 4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings Pfizer Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century by Omar W. Nasim 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings Pfizer Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Daniel P. Todes 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings Pfizer Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany by Sachiko Kusukawa 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings Pfizer Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon by John Tresch 4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings Pfizer Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China by Dagmar Schäfer 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings Pfizer Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History by Eleanor Robson 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings Pfizer Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza 4.08 avg rating — 78 ratings Pfizer Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook 3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings Pfizer Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings Pfizer Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics by David Kaiser really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings Pfizer Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology by Richard W. Burkhardt 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings Pfizer Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry by William R. Newman 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings Pfizer Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 2 - The Power of Place by Janet Browne 4.28 avg rating — 707 ratings Pfizer Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment by Mary Terrall 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings Pfizer Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by James A. Secord 4.03 avg rating — 77 ratings Pfizer Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J.L. Heilbron 4.02 avg rating — 58 ratings Pfizer Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain by Crosbie Smith 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings Pfizer Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston 4.24 avg rating — 209 ratings Pfizer Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics by Peter Galison 4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings Pfizer Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (Volume 2) by Margaret W. Rossiter 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings Pfizer Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Volume 20) (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Paula Findlen 4.17 avg rating — 58 ratings Pfizer Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Business of Alchemy by Pamela H. Smith 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings Pfizer Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture by Joan Cadden 3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings Pfizer Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg by David C. Cassidy 4.07 avg rating — 83 ratings Pfizer Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition by Professor James R. Bartholomew really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Pfizer Award (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars