Past Winners: Journalist
2011: George Musser Scientific American magazine "Could Time End?"
2010: Tom Zoellner Penguin Group "Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World"
2008: Ann Finkbeiner Viking/Penguin "The Jasons"
2007: Tim Folger Discover Magazine "If an Electron can be in Two Places at Once, Why Can't You?"
2006: Barbara Goldsmith WW Norton and Atlas Books "Obsessive Genius"
2005: Michael Moyer Popular Science "Journey to the 10th Dimension"
2004: J. Madeleine Nash Warner Books El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
2003: Diane Tennant The Virginian-Pilot "A Cosmic Tale"
2002: No award given
2001: Marcia Bartusiak Joseph Henry Press Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
2000: Ron Cowen USA Today "Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"; Science News "Travelin' Light"; The Washington Post "Now Hear This!"
1999: Michael Lemonick Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe Simon & Schuster
1998: Robyn Suriano and Todd Halvorson Florida Today "Cassini: Debating the Risks"
1997: Hazel Muir New Scientist Magazine "Watch Out, Here Comes the Sun" "A Fast Rain's Going to Fall"
1996: K.C. Cole The Los Angeles Times (3 newspaper articles)
1995: Gary Taubes Discover Magazine "Welcome to Femtoland"
1994: Dick Teresi Omni Magazine "The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"
1993- Billy Goodman Air & Space Magazine "The Planet Hunters"
1992: Dennis Overbye Harper Collins Publishers Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
1991: Charles Petit Mosiac Magazine "Vanishingly Close to Absolute Zero"
1990: Jerry Bishop The Wall Street Journal "Cold Fusion"
1989: Timothy Ferris William & Morrow Inc Coming of Age in the Milky Way
1988: Richard Preston The Atlantic Monthly Press First Light
1987: Shannon Brownlee & Allan Chen Discover Magazine "Waiting for the Big One"
1986: Arthur Fisher Mosaic "Chaos: The Ultimate Asymmetry"
1985: Ben Patrusky World Book Yearbook "The Wandering Continents"
1984: John Tierney Discover Magazine "Perpetual Commotion"
1983: Martin Gardner Discover Magazine "Quantum Weirdness"
1982: Marcia F. Bartusiak Discover Magazine "The Ultimate Timepiece"
1981: Leo Janus Science 80 Magazine "Timekeepers of the Solar System"
1980: Dennis Overbye Omni Magazine "The Wizard of Time and Space"
1979: Robert C. Cowen The Christian Science Monitor "The New Astronomy"
1978: Timothy Ferris The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
1977: William D. Metz Science Magazine "Fusion Research"
1976: Frederic Golden Time Magazine "Forecast: Earthquake"
1975: Tom Alexander Fortune Magazine "Ominous Changes in the World's Weather"
1974: Patrick Young The National Observer "A Quake Is Due at..."
1973: Edward Edelson The New York News "The Mystery of Space"
1972: Jerry E. Bishop The Wall Street Journal "Celestial Clue"
1971: Kenneth Weaver National Geographic "Voyage to the Planets"
1970: C.P. Gilmore Popular Science "Can We Stop Earthquakes from Happening"
1969: Walter S. Sullivan The New York Times "Flight of Apollo 8"
1968: William J. Perkinson The Baltimore Sun "ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"
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