Paola Bertucci Wins Margaret Rossiter Prize for Best Book on Women in Science

November 8, 2016

In a press release dated November 5, 2016, the History of Science Society has announced Associate Professor of History and History of Medicine, Paola Bertucci, this year’s winner of the Margaret Rossiter Prize for Best Book on Women in Science. Included below is the announcement from the Society:

“(Saturday, November 5, 2016) - Paola Bertucci, Associate Professor of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, has won the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize for best article on the role of women in science for her piece “The In/visible Woman: Mariangela Ardinghelli and the Circulation of Knowledge between Paris and Naples in the Eighteenth Century,” which appeared in the Society’s flagship journal Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in 2013. The prize committee called the work “exemplary” and “beautifully written,” “a very fine piece of historical scholarship in research, argument, and methodology.”

Bertucci is also the Curator of the Historical Scientific Division at Yale’s Peabody Museum and the author of A Journey in Wonderland. Science and Curiosity in Eighteenth-Century Italy (2007). She is also the recipient of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies’ 2015 Clifford Prize for her article “Enlightened Secrets: Silk, Intelligent Travel, and Industrial Espionage in Eighteenth-Century France,” published in the journal Technology and Culture in 2013 and the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching from Yale College in 2012. Her new book, Artisanal Enlightenment. Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France is forthcoming with Yale University Press in 2017.

The award was announced on Saturday, November 5th at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Atlanta, GA. More information is available at http://hssonline.org/about/honors/the-margaret-w-rossiter-history-of-wom….

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