2024 Patrick Suppes Prize

The 2024 recipient for the Patrick Suppes Prize in the History of Science is Naomi Oreskes for her 2021 book Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (University of Chicago Press).  Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at Harvard University.  The prize will be presented at the Society's November 2024 Meeting.  The full citation for the prize will be posted at that time.

The selection committee was Angela N. H. Creager (chair), Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science, Chair, Department of History, Princeton University; Gordon Baym, Professor of Physics Emeritus, Research Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Niels Bohr Institute; Jed Buchwald, Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, California Institute of Technology; Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor Emerita, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; Lorraine Daston, Professor, Director Emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago; Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the committee was selected by Richard Shiffrin, Distinguished Professor, Luther Dana Waterman Professor, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Indiana University, who oversees the three Suppes Prizes.