Updated 23 July 2024
SHOT invites members to nominate candidates for the Leonardo da Vinci Medal. To put forward a person’s name for consideration for the award, please upload a letter of nomination, describing the person’s outstanding contributions to the history of technology.
Please note that there is no standard format for a letter of nomination. Current members of SHOT’s Executive Council cannot be considered as a Da Vinci medalist. The nominations will be reviewed by the Da Vinci Medal Committee. Please note that nominated candidates will be considered for the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal in the next three years (so candidates nominated in 2024 will be considered for the award in 2024, 2025 and 2026).
It is not possible yet to nominate candidates for the 2025 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, service to the Society, 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 Leonardo da Vinci Medal. To put forward a person’s name for consideration for the award, please upload a letter of nomination, describing the person’s outstanding contributions to the history of technology, to SHOT’s online submission system. Please note that nominations will be considered for the 2023 Leonardo da Vinci Medal.
Please note that there is no standard format for a letter of nomination. Current members of SHOT’s Executive Council cannot be considered as a Da Vinci medalist.
The nominations will be reviewed by the Da Vinci Medal Committee. This committee comprises all SHOT prize committee chairs. It is chaired by the immediate SHOT past-President for two consecutive years.
For more information, please contact Jan Korsten, SHOT Secretary, [email protected].
Bill Leslie receives de 2024 Da Vinci medal from SHOT President Gabrielle Hecht (Photo SHOT)
| Arwen Mohun (Chair) | Lino Camprubí |
| Peter S. Collopy | Maria-Paula Diogo |
| Mats Fridlund | Xiaochang Li |
| Nina Lerman | David Lucsko |
| Teasel Muir-Harmony | Thomas S. Mullaney |
| Timothy H. Stoneman | Chair Dibner Committee |
| Chair Ferguson Committee | Chair Race and Histories of Technology Prize Committee |
| 2024 Stuart W. Leslie 2023 Alex Roland 2022 Donald MacKenzie 2021 Suzanne Moon 2020 Maria Paula Diogo 2020 Arthur P. Molella 2019 Francesca Bray 2018 Joy Parr 2017 Arnold Pacey 2016 Ronald R. Kline 2015 Johan Schot 2014 Pamela O. Long 2013 Rosalind H. Williams 2012 Wiebe Bijker 2011 John M. Staudenmaier 2010 Svante Lindqvist 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 |