The prize is given annually to the student who has produced the best original work within any of the departments of Radcliffe College, Cambridge in Massachusetts.
[1] The prize was given for the first time in 1899 to Kate Oelzner Petersen, for her thesis On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale.
[2] Other winners include the medievalist Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), for her thesis Morgain, la fée, a study in the fairy mythology of the middle ages,[3] the historian Grace Lee Nute (1895-1990) for her thesis American foreign commerce (1825-1850)[4] and also the astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-2007), for her thesis On the Spectroscopic Determination of Absolute Magnitudes….
[5] Florence Shirley Patterson Jones's dissertation, Surface photometry of external galaxies[6][7] won the Wilby Prize in 1941.
[8] Eva Matthews Sanford Eleanor Lansing Dulles The French Franc Since the War (shared prize)[19] LaTourette Stockwell The Dublin Theatre, 19637-1820 (shared prize)[27]