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The George Sarton Medal is the most prestigious award given by the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955. It is awarded to a historian of science from the international community who became distinguished for "a lifetime of scholarly achievement" in the field. The medal was designed by Bern Dibner and is named after George Sarton, the founder of the journal Isis and one of the founders of modern history of science. The Sarton Medalists are:
1955 – George Sarton 1956 – Charles Singer and Dorothea Waley Singer 1957 – Lynn Thorndike 1958 – John Farquhar Fulton 1959 – Richard Shryock 1960 – Owsei Temkin 1961 – Alexandre Koyré 1962 – E. J. Dijksterhuis 1963 – Vassili Zoubov 1964 – not awarded 1965 – J. R. Partington 1966 – Anneliese Maier 1967 – not awarded 1968 – Joseph Needham 1969 – Kurt Vogel 1970 – Walter Pagel 1971 – Willy Hartner 1972 – Kiyosi Yabuuti 1973 – Henry Guerlac 1974 – I. Bernard Cohen 1975 – René Taton 1976 – Bern Dibner 1977 – Derek T. Whiteside 1978 – Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich 1979 – Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli 1980 – Marshall Clagett 1981 – A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall 1982 – Thomas S. Kuhn 1983 – Georges Canguilhem 1984 – Charles Coulston Gillispie 1985 – Co-winners: Paolo Rossi and Richard S. Westfall 1986 – Ernst Mayr 1987 – G.E.R. Lloyd 1988 – Stillman Drake 1989 – Gerald Holton 1990 – A. Hunter Dupree 1991 – Mirko D. Grmek 1992 – Edward Grant 1993 – John L. Heilbron 1994 – Allen G. Debus 1995 – Charles E. Rosenberg 1996 – Loren Graham 1997 – Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs 1998 – Thomas L. Hankins 1999 – David C. Lindberg 2000 – Frederic L. Holmes 2001 – Daniel J. Kevles 2002 – John C. Greene 2003 – Nancy Siraisi 2004 – Robert E. Kohler 2005 – A. I. Sabra 2006 – Mary Jo Nye 2007 – Martin J. S. Rudwick 2008 – Ronald L. Numbers 2009 – John E. Murdoch 2010 – Michael McVaugh 2011 – Robert J. Richards 2012 – Lorraine Daston 2013 – Simon Schaffer 2014 – Steven Shapin 2015 – Robert Fox 2016 – Katharine Park 2017 – Garland E. Allen 2018 – Sally Gregory Kohlstedt 2019 – M. Norton Wise 2020 – Jim Bennett 2021 – Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 2022 – Margaret W. Rossiter 2023 – Theodore Porter 2024 – Jane Maienschein 2025 – Pamela H. Smith 2026 – Lynn K. Nyhart
== See also == List of history awards List of general science and technology awards
== References ==
== External links == Sarton Medal webpage from the History of Science Society History of Science Society, The Sarton Medalists Archived 2015-02-20 at the Wayback Machine History of Science Society. "2007 Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2008-11-26. History of Science Society. "2008 Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2008-11-26.