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The SIS Grants Programme began in 2006 and the following awards have been made:

  • Dana Freiburger (Wisconsin):
    The collections of Stonyhurst College (2009)
  • Samuel Gessner (Lisbon):
    The relationship between the Schissler globe in Sintra and Caspar Vopell’s 1532 design of a celestial globe (2009)
  • Michael Korey (Dresden):
    The instruments at Skokloster (2009)
  • Shae Trewin (New Haven):
    The instruments and archives of the astronomer Leonard Waldo (2009)
  • Amit Mathur (Michigan):
    Evolution of Modern Pulse Oximetry (2008)
  • Günther Oestmann (Bremen):
    German marine chronometer manufacture in the 18th century (2008)
  • Alfons Renz (Tübingen):
    Christian Freidrich Belthle, co-founder of Leitz, Wetzlar (2008)
  • Ron Thompson (Toronto):
    Critical edition of pseudo-Masha'allah on the astrolabe (2008)
  • Karen Buckle (London):
    Archival research on spectacles in 18th-century England (2007)
  • Stanley Greenberg (New York):
    Photography of particle detectors (2007)
  • Stephen Casper (London):
    Instruments in British neurology, 1880-1960 (2006)
  • Shae Trewin (New Haven):
    Derek Price and the origins of the Yale instrument collection (2006).
    Published: ‘The Curatorial Legacy of Derek de Solla Price’, SIS Bulletin 99 (Dec 2008), pp. 11-16.
  • Alexi Baker (Oxford):
    Archival research on 18th-century London instrument makers (2006).
    Talk: ‘The instrument trade in London, 1700-1750’, SIS AGM, Oxford, 22 July 2006.
    Published: ‘Reading Between the Lines: The Instrument Trade in the Newspapers of Early 18th Century London’, SIS Bulletin 102 (Sept 2009), pp. 12-18.