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Journal of the History of Biology - Editors' Corner

2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize

We are very pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize is Jennifer Coggon (University of Toronto). Jennifer's article titled, "Sperm-Force:  Naturphilosophie and George Newport's Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization," was published in Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 55, no. 4 (December 2022), 617-687, can be freely accessed through May by clicking on the following link:

Coggon, "Sperm-Force," https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-022-09696-3 (this opens in a new tab)


2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize is R. Ashton Macfarlane (Harvard University). Ashton's article, “Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980,” published in Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 54, no. 2 (June 2021), 311–340, can be freely accessed through May by clicking on the following link:

Macfarlane, "Wild Laboratories of Climate Change," https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-021-09643-8 (this opens in a new tab)


2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize is Ryan Hearty (Johns Hopkins University),  whose essay, "Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick's Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975," appeared in the Journal of the History of Biology, volume 53, issue 4 (December 2020), pp. 1-44. Ryan's article, which is the first contribution to JHB’s Topical Collection “Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Biology” edited by Donald Opitz, can be accessed by clicking on the following link:


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