Cohen Receives History Award

I. Bernard Cohen, professor of the History of Science, has won the book prize of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, it was announced yesterday.

Cohen received the award for his study on "Franklin and Newton, An Enquiry into Speculative Newtonian Experimental Science and Franklin's Work in Electricity as an Example Thereof."

The work was published by the American Philosophical Society as volume 43 of its Memoirs.

The prize of $500, given annually for the best book published in the field of early American History, will be presented to Cohen in May.

The Society said that Cohen's book had "focussed on the fundamentals of the scientific thought of the eighteenth century."