The George Sarton Medal is the most prestigious award given by the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955. It is awarded to an historian of science from the international community who became distinguished for "a lifetime of scholarly achievement" in the field.
The medal was designed by Bern Dibner and is named after George Sarton, the founder of the journal Isis and one of the founders of modern history of science.
The Sarton Medalists are:
1955 - George Sarton1956 - Charles Singer and Dorothea Waley Singer1957 - Lynn Thorndike1958 - John Farquhar Fulton1959 - Richard Shryock1960 - Owsei Temkin1961 - Alexandre Koyré1962 - E. J. Dijksterhuis1963 - Vassili Zoubov1964 - NOT AWARDED1965 - J. R. Partington1966 - Anneliese Maier1967 - NOT AWARDED1968 - Joseph Needham1969 - Kurt Vogel1970 - Walter Pagel1971 - Willy Hartner1972 - Kiyosi Yabuuti1973 - Henry Guerlac1974 - I. Bernard Cohen1975 - René Taton1976 - Bern Dibner1977 - Derek T. Whiteside1978 - Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich1979 - Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli1980 - Marshall Clagett1981 - A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall1982 - Thomas S. Kuhn1983 - Georges Canguilhem1984 - Charles Coulston Gillispie1985 - Co-winners: Paolo Rossi (philosopher and historian of science) and Richard S. Westfall1986 - Ernst Mayr1987 - G.E.R. Lloyd1988 - Stillman Drake1989 - Gerald Holton1990 - A. Hunter Dupree1991 - Mirko D. Grmek1992 - Edward Grant and George A. van Sande1993 - John L. Heilbron1994 - Allen G. Debus1995 - Charles E. Rosenberg1996 - Loren Graham1997 - Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs1998 - Thomas L. Hankins1999 - David C. Lindberg2000 - Frederick L. Holmes2001 - Daniel J. Kevles2002 - John C. Greene2003 - Nancy Siraisi2004 - Robert E. Kohler2005 - A. I. Sabra2006 - Mary Jo Nye2007 - Martin J. S. Rudwick2008 - Ronald L. Numbers2009 - John E. Murdoch2010 - Michael McVaugh2011 - Robert J. Richards2012 - Lorraine Daston2013 - Simon Schaffer2014 - Steven Shapin2015 - Robert Fox