On Friday, 15 September 2023, at the ‘Leonidas Zervas’ Auditorium of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, the International Academy of the History of Science awarded the Young Historian Prize 2021 to Associate Professor of the History of Sciences at the NKUA’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Mr Petros Bouras-Vallianatos.
The President of the International Academy of the History of Science, Mr Serguei Demidov, presented Mr Bouras-Vallianatos with the prize and congratulated him on his original monograph entitled Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330) (Oxford University Press, 2020).
In his response to the President’s remarks, Mr Bouras-Vallianatos thanked the International Academy of the History of Science, highlighting the importance of the Young Historians Prize for himself and the field of Byzantine Studies. That was the first time a Greek scholar received the Young Historians Prize, proof of the high-quality research produced at the NKUA’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
