• Awards, Prizes & Grants
• Special Interest Groups

Fellowships:

• Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship
• Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship
• SHOT-NASA Fellowship

Prizes

• da Vinci Medal
• Edelstein Prize
• Hacker Prize
• Usher Prize
• Robinson Prize
• Levinson Prize
• IEEE Life Members Prize
• Dibner Award
• Ferguson Prize

Grants & Other Funding

• International Scholars Program
• SHOT Travel Grants
• Women in Technological History Travel Grants

 

The Leonardo da Vinci Medal

The highest recognition from the Society for the History of Technology is the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the history of technology, through research, teaching, publications, and other activities. Andras Beck (formerly of the Hungarian Academy of Arts) designed the medal, the face of which shows Leonardo's head modeled after the artist's self-portrait. The reverse design shows (in the words of the sculptor) "the basic sources of energy: water, wind, and fire." The prize consists of a medal and a certificate.

SHOT invites members to nominate candidates for the DaVinci Medal. To put forward a person's name for consideration, please send a letter of nomination, describing the person's outstanding contributions to the history of technology, to DaVinci Medal Committee chair Steve Usselman (pictured at right, 2009 Leonardo da Vinci Medal recipient Susan J. Douglas).

For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.975.2190, shot@virginia.edu.

2010 da Vinci Medal Committee

Jennifer Alexander jalexand@me.umn.edu	Francesca Bray francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk
Andy Butrica abutrica@earthlink.net	Paul Josephson prjoseph@colby.edu
Per Lundin plundin@kth.se	Chris MacLeod c.macleod@bristol.ac.uk
Alex Magoun amagoun@davidsarnoff.org	SHOT/NASA 2010 Chair, TBA
Steve Usselman (chair) steve.usselman@hts.gatech.edu

Previous Recipients of the da Vinci Medal

2009 Susan J. Douglas 2008 Joel Tarr 2007 David A. Hounshell 2006 Eric H. Robinson 2005 David Nye 2004 David Landes 2003 Bart Hacker 2002 Leo Marx 2001 Robert C. Post 2000 Silvio A. Bedini 1999 no award 1998 Walter G. Vincenti 1997 Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1996 Nathan Rosenberg 1995 Bruce Sinclair 1994 Merritt Roe Smith 1993 W. David Lewis 1992 Otto Mayr 1991 Carroll W. Pursell 1990 Edwin Layton, Jr. 1989 R. Angus Buchanan 1988 Sidney M. Edelstein 1987 Robert P. Multhauf 1986 Hugh G. J. Aitken

1985 Thomas P. Hughes 1984 Brooke Hindle 1983 Louis C. Hunter 1982 no award 1981 Donald S. L. Cardwell 1980 John B. Rae 1979 John U. Nef 1978 Torsten Althin 1977 Eugene S. Ferguson 1976 Derek J. deSolla Price 1975 Friedrick Klemm 1974 Bern Dibner 1973 Carl Condit 1972 Ladislo Reti 1971 A. G. Drachmann 1970 Bertrand Gille 1969 Lewis Mumford 1968 Joseph Needham 1967 Melvin Kranzberg 1966 Cyril Stanley Smith 1965 Maurice Daumas 1964 Lynn T. White, Jr. 1963 Abbott Payson Usher 1962 R. J. Forbes