The award was briefly known as the Sidney M. Edelstein Award from 2002 to 2009, but was still given by the ACS.[8] As such, the Sidney M. Edelstein Award should be distinguished from the Sidney Edelstein Prize (1968-present), which has been given continuously since 1968 by the Society for the History of Technology to recognize "an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology."[9]