Helen Verran
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Helen Verran was awarded US Ludwig Fleck Prize (UniNews Vol. 12, No. 2 24 February - 10 March 2003).
University of Melbourne academic Dr. Helen Verran (History and Philosophy of Science) has won the Ludwig Fleck Prize of the US Society for Social Studies of Science for her book, Science and an African Logic, (University of Chicago Press).
The Ludwig Fleck Prize is awarded annually for the best book in the area of science and technology studies.
The success of Dr. Verran’s book is especially notable in that the ‘science and technology studies’ category covers an interdisciplinary field in which a large range and number of books are eligible to compete.
The field includes sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, political science, economics, geography, and psychology, as well as studies of knowledge, policy, government, R&D, the uses of expertise, technological controversies, technology transfer, feminist studies, rhetorical and literary analyses, and studies of specific technologies.
The Ludwik Fleck Prize is named after microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), author of Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact and an influence on the conception of the history of science developed by Thomas Kuhn.
