EDELSTEIN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
- The award recognized an outstanding career of contributions to the history of chemistry.
- The award consisted of a monetary award and a plaque.
- The award was international in scope, and was presented annually at the fall national ACS meeting.
- Following Sidney M. Edelstein's death in 1994, the Dexter Chemical Corporation continued to sponsor the Dexter Award until 1999. Afterwards the Edelstein family decided to continue the award and provided the major funding was what was then renamed "The Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry". The newly named award was established in 2002 and was co-funded by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) with further support from HIST's budget. This award ceased in 2009 when funding sources terminated. In 2013, due to a generous contribution from an anonymous donor, the HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry was initiated and continues to this day.
Year | Awardee | Affiliation at Time of Award | Award Address | Reference |
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2009 | Trevor H. Levere | Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto | Sons of Genius: Chemical Manipulation and Its Shifting Norms from Joseph Black to Michael Faraday | Bull. Hist. Chem. 35 (2010), 1-6. |
2008 | Sir John Shipley Rowlinson | Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford | The Border Between Physics and Chemistry | Bull. Hist. Chem. 34 (2009), 1-10. |
2007 | Anthony S. Travis | Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel | What A Wonderful Empire is the Organic Chemistry | Bull. Hist. Chem. 33 (2008), 1-12. |
2006 | Peter J. T. Morris | Science Museum, London | Writing the History of Modern Chemistry | Bull. Hist. Chem. 32 (2007), 2-9. Photograph - Jeffrey I. Seeman, Peter Morris and Ruth Barish, daughter of Sidney Edelstein |
2005 | William B. Jensen | University of Cincinnati | Textbooks and the Future of the History of Chemistry as an Academic Discipline | Bull. Hist. Chem. 31 (2006), 1-8. |
2004 | Joseph B. Lambert | Northwestern University | The Deep History of Chemistry | Bull. Hist. Chem. 30 (2005), 1-9. |
2003 | David Knight | Durham University, Durham, England | Making Chemistry Popular | Bull. Hist. Chem. 29 (2004), 1-8. Photograph - David Knight with Dave Abrahams. |
2002 | John Parascandola | National Library of Medicine | To Bond or Not to Bond:Chemical versus Physical Theories of Drug Action | Bull. Hist. Chem. 28 (2003), 1-8. |