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Angela Creager has received the American Philosophical Society’s 2018 Patrick Suppes Prize in the History of Science for her book Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine.
Creager is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science and professor of history and director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. She joined the Princeton faculty in 1994 and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of science, the history of biology, gender and science, and technology and science.
Life Atomic was published in 2013. Creager discusses her book on atomic research in this 2014 Princeton video.
The APS prize announcement noted: “The book is an original and masterful contribution to the growing scholarship on how sciences are shaped by the development and deployment of new instruments. Breathtaking in scope, the book shows how — in the second half of the twentieth century — radioisotopes came to suffuse and transform research in fields ranging from the experimental life sciences (biochemistry and molecular biology) to the observational aspects of ecology and to both the diagnostic and the therapeutic aspects of bio-medicine."