- 2013 DHST PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS
International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science/
DIVISION OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (IUHPS/DHST)
The 2013 DHST Prize will not specify distinct categories, but the entries must be on the history of science or technology in any part of the world. The Award Committee will endeavor to maintain the broadest coverage of subjects, areas and chronology.
AWARD COMMITTEE
The Committee comprises the DHST President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary General, and distinguished specialists in specific fields.
COMPETITION CALENDAR
Submission deadline: 31 August 2012
Qualification examination and preliminary selection: September 2012
Award Committee online meeting: October-November 2012
Approval by DHST Council: December 2012
Award Ceremony: July 2013.
CONDITIONS
Eligibility: Applicants must have a doctoral degree in the history of science, or technology awarded no earlier than July 2008.
Language: Any dissertation in a language other than English must be accompanied by a detailed summary in English of no more than 20 pages.
Application procedure: Along with an electronic version (preferably MS Word) of original dissertations (and English summaries for non-English language papers), applications must be made in the Form Appendix 3, and received at the Award Committee Office no later than 31 August 2012:
DHST-YSP Office:
Institute for History of Natural Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
55 Zhong Guan Cun East Road
Beijing 100190, CHINA
The First YSP (July 2005, Beijing)
Winner
Jimena Canales: “Sensational Differences: Individuality in Observation, Experimentation and Representation (France 1853-1895).
Honorable Mention:
Maria Rentetzi: “Gender, Politics and Radioactivity Research in Vienna, 1910-1938”.
Karin Nickelsen: “Botanical Illustrations of 18th- Century Production, Content, Function”.
Winner
François Charette: “Mathematical Instrumentation in 14th-Century Egypt and Syria: The Illustrated Treatise of Najm al-Din al-Misri”.
Honorable Mention
Marwa Elshakry: “Darwin’s Legacy in the Arab East: Science, Religon and Politics, 1870-1914”.
Mahmoud Masri: “Manuscript on Masalih Al Abdan wa El Enfus li Ebi Zeyid Al-Balakhi: editing and study”.
Winner
Kenji Ito: “Making sense of Ryoshiron (Quantum Theory): The Introduction of Quantum Mechanics into Japan, 1920-1940”.
Honorable Mention
Zhang Li: “The Institutionalization of Polymer Science in China, 1949-1965”.
APPENDIX 1
The Second YSP (July 2009, Budapest)
Winner
Paul Erickson: “The Politics of Game Theory: Mathematics and Cold War Culture”
Honorable Mention
Daniela Bleichmar: “Visual culture in eighteenth-century natural history: Botanical illustrations and expeditions in the Spanish Atlantic”
Sadiah Qureshi: Livings Curiosities: Human Ethnological Exhibitions in London, 1900-1855”
Winner
José Bellver: “On Jābir b. Afah’s Criticisms of Ptolemy’s Almagest”
Honorable Mention
Josep Casulleras: “The Treatise on the Projection of Rays by Ibn Mu‘adh al-Jayyani (d. 1093)”
Nahyan A.G. Fancy: “Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interation of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafis (d.1288)
Winner
Hou Gang: “The Yishu and Its Connection with the Mathematics in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties”
Honorable Mention
Carla Suzan Nappi:“The Monkey of the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China”
No award given.
APPENDIX 3. APPLICATION FORM
Applicant’s full name | |||||
Nationality |
Year of birth | ||||
Gender |
Supervisor’s name | ||||
Graduated university/ institution & Year | |||||
Dissertation’ s title | |||||
Key words (no more than five) | |||||
Abstract of dissertation (no more than 300 words) |