The ISHPSSB awards five prizes, three of which are named, at its biennial meetings to recognize excellent achievements in the fields covered by the society. Each of them is named after a pivotal and dearly missed member of the Society and the broader academic community.
Two of those prizes are aimed at graduate students, to recognize outstanding papers presented at a previous ISHPSSB meeting:
To recognize extraordinary contribution to scholarship, and service that promotes interdisciplinary connections between history, philosophy, social studies, and biology, the society awards the
The Society awards two further, more recent prizes (resp. since 2019 and 2025). Namely,l to recognize the organization and performance of sessions that enhance interdisciplinary interactions (with an inclusion of history or sociology of science and technology) at ISHPSSB biennial meetings:
To recognize outstanding contributions to ISHPSSB as an organization and as a community: