International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)

Lifetime Contribution to the History of the Neurosciences

	2023	Paul Eling Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
	2022	Peter J. Koehler (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
	2016	Stanley Finger (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
	2014	Malcolm B. Macmillan (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
	2012	Moshe Feinsod (Haifa, Israel)
	2011	Nicholas J. Wade (Dundee, Scotland)
	2009	Theodore L. Sourkes (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
	2007	Samuel H. Greenblatt (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
	2005	Christopher U.M. Smith (Birmingham, England)
	2003	John B. Lyons (Dublin, Ireland)  and  F. Clifford Rose (London, England)
	2002	Louise H. Marshall (Los Angeles, California, USA)  and  Francis Schiller (San Francisco, California, USA)
	2001	Hansruedi Isler (Zürich, Switzerland)

Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences

	2022	BIOGRAPHY Stanley Finger and Stanley Finger Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain Oxford University Press, 2019
	2022	NON-BIOGRAPHY Simon Shorvon and Alastair Compston Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology Cambridge University Press, 2018
	2018	Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject Fordham University Press, 2017
	2016	Marco Catani and Stephano Sandrone Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience Oxford University Press, 2015
	2014	Alan McComas Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse Oxford University Press, 2011
	2012	John T.E. Richardson Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island Columbia University Press, 2011
	2010	Gordon Shepherd Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
	2008	Laura Otis Müller's Lab Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
	2006	Julius Rocca Galen on the Brain: Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2003
	2004	Joseph D. Robinson Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission: Bridging the Gaps (1890-1990) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
	2002	Malcolm B. Macmillan An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000

Outstanding Student Essay in the History of the Neurosciences

	2023 (Graduate Essay)	Bart Lutters (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Ph.D. thesis, 2023) A Disputed Hegemony: Negotiating Neurosurgical Patient Care in the Netherlands, 1930-1952
	2023 (Undergraduate Essay)	Madeline Reis (Neuroscience and Mental Health, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Is This My Brain? A Brief History of Migraines
	2014	Michael Anthony Finn (Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, UK; Ph.D. thesis, 2012) The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century
	2012	Bonnie Louise Evan (King's College, Cambridge, UK; Ph.D. thesis, 2010) Mental Defectives, Childhood Psychotics, and the Origins of Autism Research at the Maudsley Hospital 1913-1983
	2010	Delia Gavrus (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto; Ph.D. candidate) Men of Dreams and Men of Action: Neurologists, Neurosurgeons and the Performance of Professional Identity, 1925-1950
	2008	Emily Phillips (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London; M.A. thesis) Sir James Crichton-Browne and the Theory of Degeneration: A Study in the Positive Applications of a Pessimistic Idea
	2006	Mical Raz (History of Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; M.D./Ph.D. candidate) Bodily Parts, Bodily Wholes; Social Parts, Social Wholes: Lobotomy between Holism and Localizationism
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	2002	Paul B. Foley (University of Würzberg; Ph.D. dissertation) Beans, Roots and Leaves: A History of the Chemical Theory of Parkinsonism

Outstanding Poster Presentation in the History of the Neurosciences

2015

Valentina Carni (University of Pavia and IRCCS C. Mondino; Pavia, Italy) Pioneering Research in Neurobiology: Aldo Perroncito's Findings on the Regeneration of the Peripheral Nervous System View the poster [PDF; 4 MB]

Outstanding Article in the History of the Neurosciences

	2023	Paul Weindling (School of History, Philosophy, and Culture, Oxford Brookes University; and Center for Science Research, Leopoldina, Halle, Germany), Gerrit Hohendorf, Axel C. Hüntelmann, Jasmin Kindel, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Aleksandra Loewenau, Stephanie Neuner, Michal Adam Palacz, Marion Zingler, and Herwig Czech The problematic legacy of victim specimens from the Nazi era: Identifying the persons behind the specimsns at the Max Planck Institutes for Brain Research and of Psychiatry. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2023, 32(2):218-239
	2023 (Runner-up)	Youjung Shin (Science Studies, Jeonbuk National Univertiy, Republic of Korea) The transnational move of interdisciplinarity: Ginseng and the beginning of neuroscience in South Korea, 1970-1990s. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2022, 31(4):466-489
	2017	Duane E. Haines (Wake Forest School of Medicine) and Régis Olry (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) For their extensive work on the "NEUROwords" column in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
	2015	Lawrence A. Zeidman (Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago) For his series of four articles on neuroscientist refugees, collaborators, and resistors from the National Socialist era and World War II: Zeidman LA. Dr. Haakon Sæthre: A Norwegian Neuroscientist and his Resistance Against Nazi Germany. J Hist Neurosci 2013:22(2):160-173 (PMID: 23586544) Zeidman LA, Mohan L. Adolf Wallenberg, Giant in Neurology and Refugee from Nazi Europe. J Hist Neurosci 2014;23(1):31-44 (PMID: 24256512) Czech H, Zeidman LA. Walther Birkmayer, Co-describer of L-Dopa, and His Nazi Connections: Victim or Perpetrator? J Hist Neurosci 2014;23(2):160-91 (PMID: 24697654) Zeidman LA, Cohen J. Walking a fine scientific line: The extraordinary deeds of Dutch neuroscientist C.U. Ariëns Kappers before and during World War II. J Hist Neurosci 2014;23(3):252-75 (PMID: 24827590) The eligible publication period for the award was 2012 through 2014. A fifth paper in his series appeared in print in 2015 but as an epub in 2014: Zeidman LA, Ziller MG, Shevell MI. "With a Smile through Tears": The Uprooted Career of the Man behind Gerstmann Syndrome. J Hist Neurosci 2015;24(2):148-72 (PMID: 25259646)
	2013	J. Wayne Lazar (Garden City South, New York) Acceptance of the neuron theory by clinical neurologists of the late-nineteenth century. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2010; 19(4):349-364
	2011	Janna Devinsky (Atlanta, Georgia), Daniel Lowenstein (San Francisco, California), and Richard McElren (Christchurch, New Zealand) Harold Shaw and the Ross Sea Party: epilepsy in the Antarctic. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2009; 18(3):320-328
	2009	Jean-Gäel Barbara (Paris, France) Louis Ranvier (1835-1922): the contribution of microscopy to physiology and the renewal of French general anatomy. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2007; 16(4):413-431
	2007	Alla A. Vein (Leiden, The Netherlands) for editing a special double issue of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (v. 16, no. 1-2, January 2007) on the History of Russian Neuroscience
	2005	Stanley Finger (St. Louis, Missouri) and Nick Wade (Dundee, Scotland) The neuroscience of Helmholtz and the theories of Johannes Muller. Part 1: Nerve cell structure, vitalism, and the nerve impulse. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2002; 11(2):136-155 [and] The neuroscience of Helmholtz and the theories of Johannes Muller. Part 2: Sensation and perception. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2002; 11(2):234-254
	2003	William T. Clower (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Lesions as therapy: rigidity and Parkinson's Disease. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2001; 10(1):93-106 [and] Lesions as therapy: surgical intervention in Parkinson's disease prior to L-Dopa. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 2002; 11(4):375-391
	2001	Theodore Sourkes (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) An element of thought: phosphorus and mental philosophy in the nineteenth century. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. 1998; 7:108-124

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