Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

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The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is given by the Phi Beta Kappa Society for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. The intent of the award is to encourage literate toon meer and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics. Monographs and compendiums are not eligible. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (65), Shortlist (22)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1)

Winner 65

WerkJaar
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas door Jennifer Raff2023
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred door Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2022
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World door Sarah Stewart Johnson2021
Archaeology from Space : How the Future Shapes our Past door Sarah Parcak2020
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth door Adam Frank2019
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst door Robert M. Sapolsky2018
Het gen : een intieme geschiedenis door Siddhartha Mukherjee2017
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History door Thor Hanson2016
Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle door Douglas J. Emlen2015
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian door A. Douglas Stone2014
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't door Nate Silver2013
The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change door Philip Conkling2012
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century door Burton Richter2011
Complexity : A Guided Tour door Melanie Mitchell2010
The Art and Politics of Science door Harold Varmus2009
De vis in ons een reis door 3,5 miljard jaar geschiedenis van het menselijk lichaam door Neil Shubin2008
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution door Sean B. Carroll2007
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate door William F. Ruddiman2006
The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans door Christopher Beard2005
Isaac Newton een biografie door James Gleick2004
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth door Andrew H. Knoll2003
A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change door William H. Calvin2002
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future door Richard B. Alley2001
Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils door J. William Schopf2000
De kosmische symfonie supersnaren, verborgen dimensies en de zoektocht naar de Theorie van Alles door Brian Greene1999
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight door Pat Shipman1998
Zwaarden, paarden en ziektekiemen : de ongelijkheid in de wereld verklaard door Jared Diamond1997
Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think door David Lindley1996
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration door Bert Hölldobler1995
Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy door Kip S. Thorne1994
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos door Garrett Hardin1993
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought door Ernst Mayr1992
Envisioning Information door Edward R. Tufte1991
Wonderlijk leven. Over toeval en evolutie door Stephen Jay Gould1990
The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory door David Park1989
Infinite in All Directions door Freeman J. Dyson1988
Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age door Hugh D. Crone1987
The Mystery of Comets door Fred Lawrence Whipple1986
The scientific reinterpretation of form door Norma E. Emerton1985
Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars door George Greenstein1984
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes door Stephen Jay Gould1983
Emerging Cosmology door Bernard Lovell1982
Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life door Eric Chaisson1981
The Image of Eternity: Roots of Time in the Physical World door David Allen Park1980
De ijstijd : het raadsel ontsluierd door John Imbrie1979
Mechanics of the Mind (BBC Reith Lectures; 1976) door Colin Blakemore1978
Wonen in de ruimte door Gerard K. O'Neill1977
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay door William W. Warner1976
The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World door Guido Majno1975
Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity door Howard E. Gruber1974
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann door Herman H. Goldstine1973
Overleven we dit? door Barry Commoner1972
Vitamin C and the Common Cold door Linus Pauling1971
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh door John Teal1970
Antibodies and Immunity (Pelican S.) door G. J. V. Nossal1969
Great waters; a voyage of natural history to study whales, plankton, and the waters of the Southern Ocean door Sir. Alister Clavering Hardy1968
Modern Genetics door Haig P. Papazian1967
Man Adapting door Rene Dubos1966
Bird migration door Donald R. Griffin1965
The origin of adaptations door Verne Grant1964
The unseen world door René J. Dubos1963
The World of Ice. door James Lindsay Dyson1962
Communication among social bees door Martin Lindauer1961
The Forest and the Sea door Marston Bates1960
Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It door Loren Eiseley1959

Shortlist 22

WerkJaar
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions door Temple Grandin2023
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems door Professor Joseph L Graves Jr. Ph.D2023
A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease door Shilpa Ravella2023
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow door Nicole Yunger Halpern2023
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred door Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2022
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else door Jordan Ellenberg2022
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us door Meg Lowman2022
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation door Paul A. Offit (Author)2022
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality door Frank Wilczek2022
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World door Sarah Stewart Johnson2021
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender door Eugenia Cheng2021
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less door James Hamblin2021
Galileo: And the Science Deniers door Mario Livio2021
Mathematics for Human Flourishing door Francis Su2021
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime door Sean M. Carroll2020
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution door Susan Hockfield2020
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last door Azra Raza2020
Mama's laatste omhelzing : over emoties bij dieren en wat ze zeggen over onszelf door Frans de Waal2020
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World door Marcia Bjornerud2019
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees door Thor Hanson2019
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures door Nick Pyenson2019
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto door Alan Stern2019

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