# John Desmond Bernal Prize

The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to scholars judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The award was launched in 1981, with the support of Eugene Garfield.
The award is named after the scientist John Desmond Bernal.

## Award recipients

Source: Society for Social Studies of Science Archived 2017-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
| Year | Recipient | Notable works |
| 1981 | Derek de Solla Price | Little Science, Big Science |
| 1982 | Robert K. Merton | The Sociology of Science |
| 1983 | Thomas S. Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| 1984 | Joseph Needham | Science and Civilisation in China |
| 1985 | Joseph Ben-David | The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study |
| 1986 | Michael Mulkay | The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis |
| 1987 | Christopher Freeman | The Economics of Industrial Innovation |
| 1988 | Dorothy Nelkin | Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology |
| 1989 | Gerald Holton | The Scientific Imagination |
| 1990 | Thomas Hughes | Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 |
| 1991 | Melvin Kranzberg | By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western World (with Joseph Gies) |
| 1992 | Bruno Latour | Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar) |
| 1993 | David Edge | Astronomy Transformed (with Michael Mulkay) |
| 1994 | Mary Douglas | Natural Symbols |
| 1995 | Bernard Barber | Science and the Social Order |
| 1996 | David Bloor | Knowledge and Social Imagery |
| 1997 | Harry Collins | The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (with Trevor Pinch) |
| 1998 | Barry Barnes | Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory |
| 1999 | Martin J.S. Rudwick | The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists |
| 2000 | Donna Haraway | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century |
| 2001 | Steven Shapin | Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer) |
| 2002 | Michel Callon | The Laws of the Markets |
| 2003 | Helga Nowotny | Re-Thinking Science (with Michael Gibbon and Peter Scott) |
| 2004 | Sheila Jasanoff | Controlling Chemicals |
| 2005 | Donald MacKenzie | Mechanizing proof: computing, risk, and trust |
| 2006 | Wiebe Bijker | Of bicycles, bakelites and bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change |
| 2007 | Ruth Schwartz Cowan | A Social History of American Technology |
| 2008 | Steve Woolgar | Laboratory Life (with Bruno Latour) |
| 2009 | Karin Knorr Cetina | Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge |
| 2010 | Brian Wynne | Rationality and Ritual: The Windscale Inquiry and Nuclear Decisions in Britain |
| 2011 | Evelyn Fox Keller | Reflections on Gender and Science |
| 2012 | Adele Clarke | Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the 'Problem of Sex' |
| 2013 | Sandra Harding | The Science Question in Feminism |
| 2014 | Lucy Suchman | Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication |
| 2015 | John Law | Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge |
| 2016 | Michael Lynch | Representation in Scientific Practice |
| 2017 | Hebe Vessuri | Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad en América Latina ("Science, Technology and Society in Latin America") |
| 2018 | Trevor Pinch | The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (with Wiebe Bijker and Thomas P. Hughes) |
| 2019 | Emily Martin | The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (1987), "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" (1991) |
| 2020 | Sharon Traweek | Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (1988) |
| 2020 | Langdon Winner | Autonomous Technology (1977), "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (1980), The Whale and the Reactor (1986) |
| 2021 | Judy Wajcman | The Social Shaping of Technology (with Donald Mackenzie; 1985), Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (2015) |
| 2021 | Nelly Oudshoorn | Beyond the Natural Body (1994), The Male Pill (2003), Telecare and the Transformations of Healthcare (2011) |
| 2022 | Arie Rip | Futures of Science and Technology in Society, Nanotechnology and its governance |
| 2022 | Troy Duster | Backdoor to Eugenics (2004) |
| 2023 | Joan Fujimura | Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer |
| 2023 | Warwick Anderson | Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen |
| 2024 | Geoffrey Bowker | Sorting things out (with Susan Leigh Star), |
| 2024 | Anne Marie le Mol | The Body Multiple (2003) |