# Nathan Reingold Prize

The Nathan Reingold Prize (formerly Ida & Henry Schuman Prize) is given every year to a graduate student for having written an original essay in the history of science. It is awarded by the History of Science Society.
| Year | Recipient | University | Essay Title |
| 1956 | Chandler Fulton | Brown University | Vinegar Flies, T. H. Morgan, and Columbia University: Some Fundamental Studies in Genetics |
| 1957 | No award | |
| 1958 | Robert Wohl | Princeton University | Buffon and his Project for a New Science |
| 1959 | No award | |
| 1960 | Harold Burstyn | Harvard University | Galileo's Attempt to Prove that the Earth Moves |
| 1961 | Frederic L. Holmes | Harvard University | Elementary Analysis and the Origins of Physiological Chemistry |
| 1962 | Robert H. Silliman | Princeton University | William Thomson: Smoke Rings and Nineteenth-Century Atomism |
| 1963 | Roy MacLeod | Cambridge University | Richard Owen and Evolutionism |
| 1964 | Jerry B. Cough | Cornell University | Turgot, Lavoisier, and the Role of Heat in the Chemical Revolution |
| 1965 | Timothy O. Lipman | Columbia University | Vitalism and Reductionism in Liebig's Physiological Thought |
| 1966 | Paul Forman | University of California, Berkeley | The Doublet Riddle and Atomic Physics circa 1924 |
| 1967 | Gerald Geison | Yale University | The Physical Basis of Life: The Concept of Protoplasm 1835-1870 |
| 1968 | Ronald S. Calinger | University of Chicago | The Newtonian-Wolffian Controversy in St. Petersburg, 1725-1756 |
| 1969 | Park Teter | Princeton University | Bacon's Use of the History of Science for Scientific Revolution |
| 1970 | Daniel Siegel | Yale University | Balfour Stewart and Gustav Kirchhoff: Two Independent Approaches to 'Kirchhoff's Radiation Law' |
| 1971 | Philip Kitcher | Princeton University | Fluxions, Limits, and Infinite Littlenesse |
| 1972 | John E. Lesch | Princeton University | George John Romanes and Physiological Selection: A Post-Darwinian Debate and its Consequences |
| 1973 | Robert M. Friedman | Johns Hopkins University | The Methodology of Joseph Fourier and the Problematic of Analysis |
| 1974 | Philip F. Rehbock | Johns Hopkins University | Huxley, Haeckel, and the Oceanographers: The Case of Bathybius haeckelii |
| 1975 | Lorraine Daston | Columbia University | British Responses to Psycho-physiology |
| 1976 | Richard F. Hirsch | University of Wisconsin | The Riddle of the Gaseous Nebulae: What Are They Made of? |
| 1977 | Thomas Jobe | University of Chicago | The Role of the Devil in Restoration Science: The Webster-Ward Witchcraft Debate |
| 1978 | Robert Scott Bernstein | Princeton University | Pasteur's Cosmic Asymmetric Force: The Public Image and the Private Mind |
| 1979 | Geoffrey V. Sutton | Princeton University | Electric Medicine and Mesmerism: The Spirit of Systems in the Enlightenment |
| 1980 | Bruce J. Hunt | Johns Hopkins University | Theory Invades Practice: The British Response to Hertz |
| 1981 | Larry Owens | Princeton University | Pure and Sound Government: Laboratories, Lecture Halls, and Playing Fields in Nineteenth-Century American Science |
| 1982 | Richard Gillespie | University of Pennsylvania | Aerostation and Adventurism: Ballooning in France and Britain, 1783-1786 |
| 1983 | Alexander Jones | Brown University | The Development and Transmission of 248-Day Schemes for Lunar Motion in Astronomy |
| 1984 | Pauline Carpenter Dear | Princeton University | Richard Owen and the Invention of the Dinosaur |
| 1985 | Lynn Nyhart | University of Pennsylvania | The Intellectual Geography of German Morphology, 1870-1900 |
| 1986 | William R. Newman | Harvard University | The Defense of Technology: Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages |
| 1987 | Marcos Cueto | Columbia University | Excellence, Institutional Continuity, and Scientific Styles in the Periphery: Andean Biology in Peru |
| 1988 | M. Susan Lindee | Cornell University | Sexual Politics of a Textbook: The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853 |
| 1989 | Richard J. Sorrenson | Princeton University | Making a Living out of Science: John Dollond and the Achromatic Lens |
| 1990 | Michael Aaron Dennis | Johns Hopkins University | Reconstituting Technical Practice: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory after World War II |
| 1991 | Alex Soojung-Kim Pang | University of Pennsylvania | The Social Event of the Season: Solar Eclipse Expeditions and 19th-Century Scientific Culture |
| 1992 | Sungook Hong | University of Toronto | Making a New Role for Scientist Engineer: John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) and the 'Ferranti Effect' |
| 1993 | Paul Lucier | Princeton University | Commercial Interest and Scientific Disinterestedness: Geological Consultants in Antebellum America |
| 1994 | James Strick | Princeton University | Swimming against the Tide: Adrianus Pijper and the Debate over Bacterial Flagella, 1946-1956 |
| 1995 | Helen Rozwadowski | University of Pennsylvania | Small World: Forging a Scientific Maritime Culture |
| 1996 | James Spiller | University of Wisconsin | Re-Imagining Antarctica and the United States Antarctica Research Program: Enduring Representations of a Redemptive Science |
| 1997 | No award | |
| 1998 | Michael Gordin | Harvard University | The Importation of Being Earnest |
| 1999 | James Endersby | Cambridge University | Putting Plants in their Place |
| 2000 | No award | |
| 2001 | Joshua Buhs | University of Pennsylvania | The Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century |
| 2002 | Matthew Stanley | Harvard University | 'An Expedition to Heal the Wounds and Desolation of War': British Astronomy, the Great War, and the 1919 Eclipse |
| 2003 | Avner Ben-Zaken | UCLA | Hebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries, and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context |
| 2004 | Alistair Sponsel | Princeton University | Fathoming the Depth of Charles Darwin's Theory of Coral Reef Formation: Humboldt, Hydrography, and Invertebrate Zoology |
| 2005 | No award | |
| 2006 | Joy Rohde | University of Pennsylvania | Gray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Disinterested Truth in the Cold War |
| 2007 | Hyung Wook Park | University of Minnesota | 'The Thin Rats Bury the Fat Rats': Animal Husbandry, Caloric Restriction, and the Making of a Cross-Disciplinary Research Project |
| 2008 | Laurel Brown | Columbia University | The Transmission of Arabic Astronomy to Europe and East Africa |
| 2009 | Rachel N. Mason Dentinger | University of Minnesota | Molecularizing Plant Compounds, Evolutionizing Insect-Plant Relationships: Gottfried S. Fraenkel and the Physiological Study of Insect Feeding in the 1950s |
| 2010 | Helen Anne Curry | Yale University | Vernacular Experimental Gardens of the Twentieth Century |
| 2011 | James Bergman | Harvard University | Fighting Chance: The Science of Probability and the Forecast Controversy Between the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and the U.S. Signal Service, 1884-1890 |
| 2012 | Rebecca Onion | University of Texas | Thrills, Chills and Science: Home Laboratories and the Making of the American Boy, 1918-1941 |
| 2013 | No award |
| 2014 | Iain Watts | Princeton University | Philosophical Intelligence: Letters, Print and Experiment during Napoleon's Continental Blockade |
| 2015 | Evan Helpler-Smith | Princeton University | A way of thinking backwards’: Chemists, computers, and a once and future method |
| 2016 | Adam Richter | University of Toronto | Nature Doth Not Work by Election: John Wallis (1616-1703) on Natural and Divine Action |