The Ivan Slade Prize

	Slade Prize winner Hasok Chang (standing, left) receives the award from the BSHS President, Frank James, at the 2006 Annual Conference.

BSHS is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2005 Ivan Slade Prize is Dr Hasok Chang of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College, London.  Dr Chang's winning essay is entitled "Adventures of a Scientific Potter: The Rise and Fall of the Wedgwood Pyrometer." 

The prize of £300 is given by Dr Slade for the best essay dealing with an episode in the history of science from the viewpoint of conceptual innovation or scientific methodology.  The competition attracted 31 entries submitted from ten different countries. 

The judges have also decided to award a commendation to Mr Guy Ortolano of the History Department, Washington University in  St Louis, for his essay "Human Science of a Human Face? Social History and the 'Two Cultures' Controversy.'

2003: Dr Sandro Caparrini, University of Turin: "Early Theories of Vectors." 

2001: Prof Yves Gingras, Université du Québec à Montréal: "The Social and Epistemological Consequences of the Mathematization of Physics"

1999: Sander Gliboff, Northwestern University.  Runners-up: John Henry, University of Edinburgh; David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology