ISAW Director Alexander Jones Receives 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities

By Iris Fernandez
06/04/2019

On April 26, 2019, Alexander Jones, Professor of History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity and Leon Levy Director of ISAW, was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in recognition of his paper “‘Like Opening a Pyramid and Finding an Atomic Bomb’: Derek de Solla Price and the Antikythera Mechanism,” which was read at the American Philosophical Society’s 2017 November Meeting and published in its Proceedings Volume 162, Number 3, September 2018. Prof. Jones’s paper traces the history of research on the so-called Antikythera Mechanism since 1958, when Derek de Solla Price received a grant from the American Philosophical Society to study this object.

You can read the American Philosophical Society’s announcement here.

You can read Jones's paper here.