Royal Society Trivedi Science Book PrizeGeneral

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Andere Namen: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (Russisch)
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The Royal Society gives an annual award for new popular science writing for a general adult readership. The Prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner toon meer receives £25,000 and the authors of the short listed books £2,500.

The awards have changed names many times:
1988 - 89: Science Book Prizes
1990 - 00: Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books
2001 - 06: Aventis Prizes for Science Books
2007 - 2010 : Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
2011- 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (General prize)
2016 - : Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

More details of the Prizes are avaialble at Royal Society Book Prizes toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (66), Shortlist (312), Longlist (65)
Categorieën:
Alle, Algemeen (282), Junior (95)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2021 (6), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (6), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (6), 2014 (12), 2013 (13), 2012 (12), 2011 (13), 2010 (11), 2009 (13), 2008 (12), 2007 (6), 2006 (13), 2005 (13), 2004 (14), 2003 (6), 2002 (6), 2001 (6), 2000 (6), 1999 (6), 1998 (6), 1997 (6), 1996 (6), 1995 (6), 1994 (7), 1993 (6), 1992 (6), 1991 (6), 1990 (6), 1989 (5), 1988 (6)
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Winner 36

WerkJaar
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us door Ed Yong2023
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters door Henry Gee2022
Verweven leven: de verborgen wereld van schimmels door Merlin Sheldrake2021
Explaining Humans door Camilla Pang2020
Onzichtbare vrouwen door Caroline Criado Perez2019
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain door Sarah-Jayne Blakemore2018
Testosteron Rex : het einde van de gendermythe door Cordelia Fine2017
De uitvinder van de natuur door Andrea Wulf2016
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made door Gaia Vince2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World door Mark Miodownik2014
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World door Sean M. Carroll2013
Informatie van tamtam tot internet door James Gleick2012
The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves Via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and all the Rest of Life's Undulations door Gavin Pretor-Pinney2011
Levenswerk de tien sterkste staaltjes van de evolutie door Nick Lane2010
De tijd van verwondering de ontdekking van de moderne wetenschap door Richard Holmes2009
Zes graden onze toekomst op een warmere planeet door Mark Lynas2008
Stuiten op geluk hoe geluk gevonden kan worden door Daniel Gilbert2007
Het elektrisch universum een geschiedenis van de elektriciteit door David Bodanis2006
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another door Philip Ball2005
Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles door Bill Bryson2004
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures door Chris McManus2003
Het universum door Stephen Hawking2002
Mapping The Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science door Robert Kunzig2001
De kosmische symfonie supersnaren, verborgen dimensies en de zoektocht naar de Theorie van Alles door Brian Greene2000
De man die van getallen hield het verhaal van Paul Erdös en de zoektocht naar de waarheid van de wiskunde door Paul Hoffman1999
Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen : de ongelijkheid in de wereld verklaard door Jared Diamond1998
Op zoek naar de missing link over de speurtocht naar de oorsprong van de mens door Alan Walker1997
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times door Arno Karlen1996
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life door John Emsley1995
De taal van de genen- Biologie ,geschiedenis en onze evolutionaire toekomst door Steve Jones1994
The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind door Steven Rose1993
De derde chimpansee evolutie en toekomst van het dier dat mens heet door Jared M. Diamond1992
Wonderlijk leven. Over toeval en evolutie door Stephen Jay Gould1991
De nieuwe geest van de keizer door Roger Penrose1990
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins door Roger Lewin1989
Living with Risk: The British Medical Assocation Guide (Wiley Medical Publications) door British Medical Association1988

Shortlist 217

WerkJaar
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us door Ed Yong2023
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way door Roma Agrawal2023
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity door Nicklas Brendborg2023
Taking Flight door Lev Parikian2023
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus door David Quammen2023
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science door Kate Zernike2023
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters door Henry Gee2022
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History door Nick Davidson2022
Spike: The Virus v The People - the inside story door Jeremy Farrar2022
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life The No 1 International Bestseller door Rose Anne Kenny2022
Hot air : the inside story of the battle against climate change denial door Peter Stott2022
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist door Frans de Waal2022
Verweven leven: de verborgen wereld van schimmels door Merlin Sheldrake2021
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers door Emily Levesque2021
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art door James Nestor2021
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias door Jessica Nordell2021
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness door Suzanne O'Sullivan2021
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth door Stuart Ritchie2021
Explaining Humans door Camilla Pang2020
The World According to Physics door Jim Al-Khalili2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants door Bill Bryson2020
The Great Pretender door Susannah Cahalan2020
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment door Linda Scott2020
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time door Gaia Vince2020
Onzichtbare vrouwen door Caroline Criado Perez2019
Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World door John Gribbin2019
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An intimate journey across our surface door Monty Lyman2019
Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution door Tim Smedley2019
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter door Paul J. Steinhardt2019
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe door Steven Strogatz2019
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain door Sarah-Jayne Blakemore2018
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife door Lucy Cooke2018
The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body's Natural Defences door Daniel M. Davis2018
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms door Hannah Fry2018
Liquid Rules door Mark Miodownik2018
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World door Simon Winchester2018
Testosteron Rex : het einde van de gendermythe door Cordelia Fine2017
Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics door Eugenia Cheng2017
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness door Peter Godfrey-Smith2017
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's door Joseph Jebelli2017
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death door Mark O'Connell2017
De microben in ons door Ed Yong2017
De uitvinder van de natuur door Andrea Wulf2016
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg door Tim Birkhead2016
The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe door Thomas Levenson2016
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body door Jo Marchant2016
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World door Oliver Morton2016
Het gen : een intieme geschiedenis door Siddhartha Mukherjee2016
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made door Gaia Vince2015
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought door David Adam2015
Genieten van getallen hoe getallen het leven weerspiegelen en het leven getallen door Alex Bellos2015
Smashing Physics: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment door Jon Butterworth2015
Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code door Matthew Cobb2015
Hoe leven ontstaat op het snijvlak van biologie en kwantumleer door Johnjoe McFadden2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World door Mark Miodownik2014
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler door Philip Ball2014
Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery door John Browne2014
De volmaakte theorie door Pedro G. Ferreira2014
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery door George Johnson2014
Hap slik weg alles wat je eigenlijk niet wilde weten over je spijsvertering door Mary Roach2014
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World door Sean M. Carroll2013
De zintuigen van vogels door Tim Birkhead2013
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life door Enrico Coen2013
Buzzing! door Anneliese Emmans Dean2013
Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts door Charles Fernyhough2013
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary door Caspar Henderson2013
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea door Callum Roberts2013
Informatie van tamtam tot internet door James Gleick2012
Het geheugen na de zondvloed door Joshua Foer2012
My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time door Lone Frank2012
De verborgen realiteit parallelle universums en de diepe wetten van de kosmos door Brian Greene2012
Ons betere ik waarom de mens steeds minder geweld gebruikt door Steven Pinker2012
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age door Nathan Wolfe2012
The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves Via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and all the Rest of Life's Undulations door Gavin Pretor-Pinney2011
Getallen ontraadseld door Alex Bellos2011
Door de bril van de taal hoe woorden de wereld kleuren door Guy Deutscher2011
Elementen ontraadseld door Sam Kean2011
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science door Ian Sample2011
The Rough Guide to the Future door Jon Turney2011
Levenswerk de tien sterkste staaltjes van de evolutie door Nick Lane2010
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe door Marcus Chown2010
Why Does E=mc²?: (And Why Should We Care?) door Brian Cox2010
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic door Frederick Grinnell2010
Gods filosofen hoe in de middeleeuwen de basis werd gelegd voor de moderne wetenschap door James Hannam2010
A World Without Ice door Henry N. Pollack2010
De tijd van verwondering de ontdekking van de moderne wetenschap door Richard Holmes2009
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life door Avery Gilbert2009
Wetenschap of kwakzalverij? waarom oppeppende pillen rood, oranje of geel zijn en andere onthullingen door Ben Goldacre2009
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets door Jo Marchant2009
De dronkemanswandeling hoe toeval ons leven bepaalt door Leonard Mlodinow2009
De vis in ons een reis door 3,5 miljard jaar geschiedenis van het menselijk lichaam door Neil Shubin2009
Zes graden onze toekomst op een warmere planeet door Mark Lynas2008
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began door Stuart Clark2008
De kracht van je intuïtie de intelligentie van het onbewuste door Gerd Gigerenzer2008
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise door Steve Jones2008
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry door Ian Stewart2008
A Life Decoded door J. Craig Venter2008
Stuiten op geluk hoe geluk gevonden kan worden door Daniel Gilbert2007
The Rough Guide to Climate Change door Robert Henson2007
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind door Eric R. Kandel2007
Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon door Henry Nicholls2007
Homo Britannicus : The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain door Chris Stringer2007
One in Three: A Son's Journey into the History and Science of Cancer door Adam Wishart2007
Het elektrisch universum een geschiedenis van de elektriciteit door David Bodanis2006
Ondergang waarom zijn sommige beschavingen verdwenen en hoe kan de onze haar ondergang voorkomen ? door Jared M. Diamond2006
Parallel Worlds : A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos door Michio Kaku2006
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life door Nick Lane2006
Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes door Arthur I. Miller2006
The Truth About Hormones: An Up-to-the-minute, Highly Entertaining Guide to Those Mysteriously Powerful Things, Hormones door Vivienne Parry2006
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another door Philip Ball2005
Het verhaal van onze voorouders een pelgrimstocht naar de oorsprong van het leven door Richard Dawkins2005
Waarom het leven sneller gaat als je ouder wordt door Douwe Draaisma2005
Matters of Substance: Drugs--and Why Everyone's a User door Griffith Edwards2005
Earth: An Intimate History door Richard Fortey2005
Human Mind: How to Make the Most It2005
Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles door Bill Bryson2004
In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite door Andrew Brown2004
Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science door Nigel Calder2004
Mutanten over de (mis)vorming van het menselijk lichaam door Armand Marie Leroi2004
Wat ons mens maakt aanleg en opvoeding door Matt Ridley2004
The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin door Francis Spufford2004
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures door Chris McManus2003
Small World: Uncovering Nature's Hidden Networks door Mark Buchanan2003
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty door Gerd Gigerenzer2003
The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos (Princeton Science Library) door Robert P. Kirshner2003
Het onbeschreven blad de moderne ontkenning van de menselijke natuur door Steven Pinker2003
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life door Stephen Webb2003
Het universum door Stephen Hawking2002
Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time door Martin Gorst2002
The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things door Hannah Holmes2002
The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity door David Horrobin2002
Herinneringen van een mensaap door Robert M. Sapolsky2002
Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers: Eight Scientific Rivalries That Changed the World door Michael White2002
Mapping The Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science door Robert Kunzig2001
Creation: Life and How to Make It door Steve Grand2001
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics door George Johnson2001
Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life door Mark Ridley2001
Mendelejevs droom door Paul Strathern2001
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression door Lewis Wolpert2001
De kosmische symfonie supersnaren, verborgen dimensies en de zoektocht naar de Theorie van Alles door Brian Greene2000
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis door Thomas Dormandy2000
A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet door John Naughton2000
Genoom het recept voor een mens door Matt Ridley2000
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior door Jonathan Weiner2000
Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution door Christopher Wills2000
De man die van getallen hield het verhaal van Paul Erdös en de zoektocht naar de waarheid van de wiskunde door Paul Hoffman1999
Mapping the Mind door Rita Carter1999
A Beautiful Mind. A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr door Sylvia Nasar1999
Hoe de menselijke geest werkt door Steven Pinker1999
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins door Robert A. Weinberg1999
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge door Edward O. Wilson1999
Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen : de ongelijkheid in de wereld verklaard door Jared Diamond1998
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications door David Deutsch1998
Leven: een ongeautoriseerde biografie - De geschiedenis van vier miljard jaar leven op aarde door Richard A. Fortey1998
This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World door Ernst Mayr1998
Het laatste raadsel van Fermat het verhaal van een stelling die de grootste geesten der aarde 358 jaar lang tot wanhoop dreef door Simon Singh1998
Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are door Lawrence Wright1998
Op zoek naar de missing link over de speurtocht naar de oorsprong van de mens door Alan Walker1997
Het toppunt van onwaarschijnlijkheid door Richard Dawkins1997
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order door George Johnson1997
In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny door Steve Jones1997
De oorsprong van de moraal door Matt Ridley1997
Lengtegraad : het ware verhaal van een eenzaam genie dat het grootste wetenschappelijke probleem van zijn tijd oploste door Dava Sobel1997
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times door Arno Karlen1996
Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management door Stephen Budiansky1996
The Faber Book of Science door John Carey1996
About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution door Paul Davies1996
Onze onsterfelijke genen een darwinistische kijk op het leven door Richard Dawkins1996
Waar zijn de getallen? : de onechte werkelijkheid van de wiskunde door Ian Stewart1996
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life door John Emsley1995
The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage door W. F. Bodmer1995
The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication door Stephen Budiansky1995
The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars door Arthur C. Clarke1995
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration door Bert Hölldobler1995
Het taalinstinct het taalscheppende vermogen van de mens door Steven Pinker1995
De taal van de genen- Biologie ,geschiedenis en onze evolutionaire toekomst door Steve Jones1994
Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples door Marcus Chown1994
The Red Queen. Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature door Matt Ridley1994
The Neandertals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal door Erik Trinkaus1994
The Engineer in the Garden: Genes and Genetics : From the Idea of Heredity to the Creation of Life door Colin Tudge1994
Dromen over een allesomvattende theorie door Steven Weinberg1994
The Diversity of Life door Edward O. Wilson1994
The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind door Steven Rose1993
Insects in Flight door John Brackenbury1993
The Mind of God : The Scientific Basis for a Rational World door Paul Davies1993
The Malaria Capers : More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality door Robert S. Desowitz1993
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman door James Gleick1993
Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality (Penguin Science) door Benjamin Woolley1993
De derde chimpansee evolutie en toekomst van het dier dat mens heet door Jared M. Diamond1992
Darwin de biografie door Adrian Desmond1992
Fossils: The Evolution and Extinction of Species door Niles Eldredge1992
Dawn of a Millennium: Beyond Evolution and Culture (Penguin Science) door Erich Harth1992
The Natural History of the Universe door Colin A. Ronan1992
Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped door Colin Tudge1992
Wonderlijk leven. Over toeval en evolutie door Stephen Jay Gould1991
Overleven in de natuur door David Attenborough1991
Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time the Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human door Jerry E. Bishop1991
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology door Eric Drexler1991
The Stuff of the Universe: Dark Matter, Mankind and the Coincidences of Cosmology door John Gribbin1991
Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? door Stephen H. Schneider1991
De nieuwe geest van de keizer door Roger Penrose1990
Time Reversal: An Autobiography door Anatole Abragam1990
Evolution: The Great Debate door Vernon Blackmore1990
The Mind Machine door Colin Blakemore1990
The New Physics door Paul Davies1990
Senses and Sensibilities door Jillyn Smith1990
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins door Roger Lewin1989
End: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe door F. E. Close1989
Chaos door James Gleick1989
Het heelal door Stephen Hawking1989
The Crumbs of Creation: Trace elements in history, medicine, industry, crime and folklore door J Lenihan1989
Living with Risk: The British Medical Assocation Guide (Wiley Medical Publications) door British Medical Association1988
Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence door Igor Aleksander1988
Molekulen chemie in drie dimensies door P. W. Atkins1988
Ei door Robert Burton1988
The Omega Point: The Search for the Missing Mass and the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (Bantam New Age Books) door John Gribbin1988
The Quantum Universe door Tony Hey1988

Longlist 65

WerkJaar
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age door W. Bernard Carlson2014
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff door Marcus Chown2014
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe door Brian Clegg2014
The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves door Daniel M. Davis2014
My Brief History door Stephen Hawking2014
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live door Marlene Zuk2014
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body door Frances Ashcroft2013
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet door Robert M. Hazen2013
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos door Peter M. Hoffmann2013
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World door William Bryant Logan2013
The Cosmic Tourist: Visit the 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Destinations in the Universe! door Brian May2013
The Life of a Leaf door Steven Vogel2013
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir door Sarah Manguso2012
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality door Richard Panek2012
The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things door Tim Radford2012
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation door George G. Szpiro2012
Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth door Ian Tattersall2012
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life door Robert Trivers2012
Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating door Leslie Brunetta2011
Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet door Tim Flannery2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness door Oren Harman2011
De wil van technologie door Kevin Kelly2011
De rationele optimist over de ontwikkeling van de welvaart door Matt Ridley2011
Ik ga naar Mars en neem mee ... de merkwaardige wetenschap van leven in de ruimte door Mary Roach2011
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years door Sonia Shah2011
Why Evolution Is True door Jerry A. Coyne2010
In Search of the Multiverse door John Gribbin2010
Storms of my grandchildren door James Hansen2010
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World door Iain McGilchrist2010
Complexity : A Guided Tour door Melanie Mitchell2010
Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 door Mark Honigsbaum2009
Kwantum Einstein, Bohr en het grote debat over de natuurkunde door Manjit Kumar2009
Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate door Kenan Malik2009
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines door Richard A. Muller2009
Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past door Chris Turney2009
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life door Carl Zimmer2009
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It door Robert Zimmerman2009
Perfect universum : Waarom er leven is op aarde door Paul Davies2008
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis door David M. Friedman2008
Bang! de complete geschiedenis van het heelal door Brian May2008
The Science of Doctor Who door Paul Parsons2008
Giant Leaps: Mankind's greatest scientific advances door John Perry2008
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code door Matt Ridley2008
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison door John Emsley2006
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature door Peter Forbes2006
The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (Ent door George Gilder2006
Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning door Andrew Meharg2006
Seven Deadly Colours door Andrew Parker2006
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers door Dan Rockmore2006
The Fruits of War door Michael White2006
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization door Brian Fagan2005
Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment door Patricia Fara2005
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life door John Gribbin2005
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug door Diarmuid Jeffreys2005
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity door Michael Marmot2005
Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and Its Discontents door Raymond Tallis2005
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control door Kathleen Taylor2005
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science door Peter Atkins2004
M /V het verschil : waarom mannen en vrouwen verschillend denken, voelen en doen door Simon Baron-Cohen2004
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable door Brian Clegg2004
De evolutie van de vrije wil door Daniel C. Dennett2004
Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks door Patricia Fara2004
After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC door Steven Mithen2004
How to Clone the Perfect Blonde: Using Science to Make Your Wildest Dreams Come True door Sue Nelson2004
Een toekomst zonder mannen wordt de man met uitsterven bedreigd ? door Bryan Sykes2004

Beschrijvingen

The Royal Society gives an annual award for new popular science writing for a general adult readership. The Prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner receives £25,000 and the authors of the short listed books £2,500.

The awards have changed names many times:
1988 - 89: Science Book Prizes
1990 - 00: Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books
2001 - 06: Aventis Prizes for Science Books
2007 - 2010 : Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
2011- 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (General prize)
2016 - : Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

More details of the Prizes are avaialble at Royal Society Book Prizes (English, Door lid geschreven)
The Royal Society gives out awards for popular science writing. Typically they give two awards per year - a junior and a general. There is no 2009 junior award because of budgetary reasons.

The awards have changed names many times:
1988 - 89: Science Book Prizes
1990 - 00: Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books
2001 - 06: Aventis Prizes for Science Books
2007 - : Royal Society Prizes for Science Books.

See also http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Royal+Society+Winton+Prize+for+Science+Books+shortlist for 2012-2016, although the sponsorship had changed again in 2016. (English, Door lid geschreven)
See also the longlist and the winners.

See also http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Royal+Society+Prize+for+Science+Books+Shortlist for 1988-2011. (English, Door lid geschreven)
The Royal Society gives an annual prize for new popular science writing for a general adult readership. The prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner receives £25,000 and the authors of the short listed books £2,500.

The name of the prize has changed over the years:
1988-1989: Science Book Prize
1990-2000: Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books
2001-2006: Aventis Prize for Science Books
2007-2010: Royal Society Prize for Science Books
2011-date: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

More details of the prize are available at Royal Society Winton Prize for Science books.

See also the longlist and the shortlist. (English, Door lid geschreven)
See also the shortlist and the winners. (English, Door lid geschreven)
see also Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (Italian, Door lid geschreven)

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