Join us in congratulating Soraya de Chadarevian for winning the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities from the European Academy of Sciences.
The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science, technology, and research education. The awards ceremony took place at the Annual Meeting of the Academy at CERN in Geneva in Dec 2025.
Soraya de Chadarevian is a towering figure in the history of science, and one of the leading historians of the life sciences worldwide. Her scholarship spans an astounding breadth of themes and topics, which, at the same time, are always treated with an immense depth of understanding. Similarly, her interdisciplinary approach has allowed her to seamlessly integrate philosophical and contextual factors into her historical accounts.
De Chadarevian’s work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of the historical development and epistemic foundations of biology in its intertwinement with neighboring fields, and she is widely recognized for her commitment to promote a constructive dialogue between life scientists and historians of science.
Yet, de Chadarevian is not only a stellar researcher; she has also been prepared to serve her field in institutional respect, and she is committed to outreach and science communication. Thus, she has served in distinguished leadership roles in the most important international scholarly society in the field, i.e., the History of Science Society (HSS), and by serving as editor and board member for some of the most prestigious journals of the field.
Soraya de Chadarevian is an outstanding and most deserving recipient of the Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities.
Here is the official announcement.