| Year | Name - Dissertation title | |
| 1953 | Robert Multhauf - "The relationship between technology and natural philosophy, ca.1250-1650, as illustrated by the technology of the mineral acids." | |
| 1960 | Robert G. Gilpin - "The politics of American science." | |
| 1961 | Sam Haber - "Scientific management and the progressive movement, 1910-1929." | |
| 1962 | Donald C. Swain - "The role of the federal government in the conservation of natural resources, 1921-1933." | |
| Carroll W. Pursell - "Stationary steam engines in America before the Civil War." | ||
| 1963 | Warren O. Hagstrom - "Social control in modern science." | |
| 1964 | John L. Heilbron - "A history of the problem of atomic structure from the discovery of the electron to the beginning of quantum mechanics." | |
| Pierce C. Mullen - "The preconditions and reception of Darwinian biology in Germany, 1800-1870." | ||
| 1965 | Joseph Haberer - "Science and politics: studies in the political theories and practices of the community of science." | |
| Nathan G. Hale - "The origins and foundation of the psychoanalytic movement in America , 1909-1914." | ||
| James L. Larson - "Speculation and experience: an inquiry into systematic description in the work of Carl von Linne." | ||
| 1966 | Charles Paul - "Rameau's musical theories and the Age of Reason." | |
| 1967 | Paul Forman - "The environment and practice of atomic physics in Weimar Germany : a study in the history of science." | |
| 1969 | Maurice A. Finocchiaro - "The problem of explanation in historiography of science." | |
| George J. Grinnell - "The Darwin case, a computer analysis of scientific creativity." | ||
| Ronald Numbers - "The nebular hypothesis in American thought." | ||
| Donald L. Obendorf - "Samuel P. Langley: solar scientist, 1867-1891." | ||
| 1970 | Vernard Foley - "The invisible hand: an inquiry into the nature and causes of The Wealth of Nations." | |
| David Hollinger - "Morris R. Cohen and the scientific ideal." | ||
| Karl Hufbauer - "The formulation of the German chemical community, 1700-1795." | ||
| 1971 | Anne Macpherson - "The human geography of Alexander von Humboldt." | |
| 1972 | Edgar W. Morse - "Natural philosophy, hypotheses, and impiety Sir David Brewster confronts the undulatory theory of light." | |
| 1973 | Gordon N. Pinkham - "Case studies of scientific contributions." | |
| 1974 | Vincent Berdoulay - "The emergence of the French school of geography (1870-1914)." | |
| George A. Saliba - "The technical chronology of Bar Shinaya." | ||
| 1976 | Marjorie C. Malley - "From hyperphosphorescence to nuclear decay: a history of the early years of radioactivity, 1869-1914." | |
| Dora Roth - "The scientific basic of epidemiology: an historical and philosophical enquiry." | ||
| 1977 | John Bryan Henderson - "The ordering of the heavens and the Earth in early Ch'ing thought." | |
| 1978 | Donald T. Critchlow - "The Brookings Institution: the early history 1916-1952 expertise and influence in a democratic society." | |
| Robert W. Seidel - "Physics research in California : the rise of a leading sector in American physics." | ||
| 1980 | Elspeth N. Lochhead - "The emergence of academic geography in Britain in its historical context." | |
| Mary E. Novitski - "Auguste Laurent and the prehistory of valence." | ||
| Robin E. Rider - "Mathematics in the Enlightenment: a study of algebra, 1685-1800." | ||
| 1983 | Theodore S. Feldman - "The history of meteorology, 1750-1800: a study in the quantification of experimental physics" | |
| 1987 | Henry Lowood - "Patriotism, profit, and the promotion of science in the German enlightenment: the economic and scientific societies, 1760-1815." | |
| David K. Robinson - "Wilhelm Wundt and the establishment of experimental psychology, 1875-1914: the context of a new field of scientific research." | ||
| 1989 | Mario Biagioli - "Galileo's strategies for the social and cognitive legitimation of science." | |
| Paula E. Findlen - "Museums, collecting scientific culture in early modern Italy." | ||
| David W. Koeller - "The physics of freedom: the beginnings of Schellings's philosophy of nature." | ||
| 1992 | Carl Ipsen - "Dictating demography: the problem of population in fascist Italy." | |
| Larry R. Lagerstrom - "Constructing uniformity: the standardization of international electromagnetic measures, 1860-1912." | ||
| Timothy Moy - "Hitting the beaches and bombing the cities: doctrine and technology for two new militaries, 1920-1940." | ||
| Alice N. Walters - "Tools of enlightenment : the material culture of science in eighteenth-century England ." | ||
| 1994 | Renee Michelle Courey - "Participants in the development, marketing and safety evaluation of the oral contraceptive, 1950-1965 : mythic dimension of a scientific solution." | |
| Stuart M. Feffer - "Microscopes to munitions : Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914." | ||
| 1995 | Horace Jeff Hodges - "Food as synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic texts." | |
| Jessica Riskin - "The quarrel over method in natural science and politics during the late enlightenment." | ||
| 1997 | John Cheng - "Amazing, astounding, wonder: Popular science, culture, and the emergence of science fiction in the United States, 1926-1939." | |
| Tal Golan - "Scientific expert testimony in Anglo-American courts, 1782-1923." | ||
| Deborah Hammond - "Toward a science of synthesis: the heritage of general systems theory." | ||
| Abigail Lustig - "The creation and uses of horticulture in Britain and France in the nineteenth century." | ||
| 1998 | Stephanie Kenen - "Scientific studies of human sexual difference in interwar America ." | |
| Julia Rechter - "'The glands of destiny': a history of popular, medical and scientific views of the sex hormones in 1920s America." | ||
| 1999 | Sonja Amadae - "Rational choice theory in U.S. economic, political, and policy science, 1944-1985: social scientists transform the language of democracy." | |
| Peter Westwick - "The National Laboratory System in the U.S. , 1947-1962." | ||
| Susan Spath - "C.B. van Niel and the culture of microbiology, 1920-1965." | ||
| 2000 | Paula De Vos - "The art of pharmacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mexico." | |
| Ethan Pollock - "The politics of knowledge: Party ideology and Soviet science, 1945-1953." | ||
| 2001 | Chris Ritter - "Re-presenting science: visual and didactic practice in nineteen-century chemistry." | |
| 2002 | Kurt Beyer - "Grace Hopper and the early history of computer programming, 1944-1960." | |
| John Jewett - "To make America scientific: science and democracy in American public culture, 1900 -1950." | ||
| 2003 | Justin Suran - "Toward an illusionless city: The province of psychiatry in twentieth-century San Francisco (California)." | |
| 2004 | Mark S. Rosen - "The cosmos in the palace: the Palazzo Vecchio Guardaropa and the culture of cartography in early modern Florence." | |
| 2005 | Sokhieng Au - "Medicine and modernity in colonial Cambodia." | |
| 2006 | Susan Groppi - "The science of mind: exploring the influence of the academic environment on the development of research psychology in America, 1880-1910." | |
| Travis D. Williams - "Ethos and Enargeia: literary and rhetorical strategies of early modern mathematics." |
