Journal of the History of Biology

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2025 Mendelsohn Prize

We are pleased to announce that for the first, and probably only time, the 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize, awarded for the best research article published in JHB in the past three years will be awarded to two recipients who used very different approaches to the history of biology.

The first recipient of the 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize is Thierry Hoquet (University of Paris, Nanterre) author of the article titled, “Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth,” published in vol. 57, no. 1 (March 2024): 17-49. It can be freely accessed through July at this link:

Hoquet, “Darwin and the Shipwrecked Sailor,” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-024-09770-y

The second recipient of the 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize is Eric J. Richards (Boyce Thompson Institute) author of the article titled, “William Lawrence Tower Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance, published in vol. 57, no. 2 (June 2024): 173-206. It can be freely accessed through July at this link:

Richards, “Lawrence Tower’s Beetles,” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-024-09771-x

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

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

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:

• Ryan Hearty - Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick's Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975,"

The first Everett Mendelsohn Prize was awarded in 2017 to mark the 50th volume of the Journal of the History of Biology. This prize is awarded annually to the author of an article published during the previous three years in the Journal of the History of Biology