Science Writing Award - Past Winners: Scientist

Past Winners: Scientist

2011: Dan Falk Scientific magazine "Could Time End?"

2009 - Dan Falk COSMOS magazine "End of days: a universe in ruins"

2008 - Gino Segre Viking/Penguin "Faust in Copenhagen"

2007 - James Trefil Astronomy magazine "Where is the Universe Heading?"

2006: Simon Singh Harper Collins "Big Bang"

2005: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Natural History Magazine "In the Beginning"

2004: Len Fisher Arcade Publishing, Inc. "How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life" www.lenfisher.co.uk

2003: Ray Jayawardhana Astronomy Magazine "Beyond Black"

2002: Lawrence Krauss Little, Brown & Co Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

Honorable Mention: Ken Croswell The Free Press The Universe at Midnight

2001: Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion Joseph Henry Press One Universe

2000: Charles H. Townes 9Charles Townes) Oxford University Press How the Laser Happened

1999: John Wheeler and Kenneth Ford W.W. Norton Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam

1998: Leonard Susskind Scientific American Magazine Black Holes and the Information Paradox

1997: Award postponed until 1998

1996: Mitchell Begelman & Martin Rees W.H. Freeman & Co. Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe

1995: Eric Chaisson HarperCollins Publishing The Hubble Wars

1994: Kip S. Thorne (Kip Thorne) W.W. Norton & Company Black Holes and Time Warps; Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

1993: Hans C. von Baeyer Random House Taming the Atom

1992: David C. Cassidy W.H. Freeman & Co. Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg

1991: Harold Lewis W.W. Norton & Co. Technological Risk

1990: Bruce Murray W.W. Norton & Co. Journey Into Space

1989: Mark Littmann John Wiley & Sons Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System

1988: Michael Riordan Simon & Schuster The Hunting of the Quark

1987: Clifford Martin Will Basic Books Was Einstein Right?

1986: Donald Goldsmith Walker and Company Nemesis: The Death Star

1985: Edwin C. Krupp MacMillan Publishing Company The Comet and You

1984: George Greenstein Freundlich Books Frozen Star

1983: Abraham Pais Oxford University Press Subtle Is the Lord...The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

1982: Heinz Pagels Simon & Schuster The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

1981: Eric Chaisson Little, Brown & Company Cosmic Dawn

1980: William J. Kaufmann, III W.H. Freeman & Company Black Holes and Warped Spacetime

1979: Hans C. von Baeyer Alumni Gazette, College of William & Mary "The Wonder of Gravity"

1978: Edwin C. Krupp Doubleday & Company In Search of Ancient Astronomies

1977: Steven Weinberg Basic Books, Inc. The First Three Minutes

1976: Jeremy Bernstein The New Yorker "Physicist: I.I. Rabi"

1975: Robert H. March Science Year "The Quandary Over Quarks"

1974: Robert D. Chapman NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Comet Kohoutek

1973: Banesh Hoffmann Viking Press Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel

1972: Dietrich Schroeer Addison-Wesley Physics & Its Fifth Dimension: Society

1971: Robert H. March MacGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. Physics for Poets

1970: Jeremy Bernstein (written for) Atomic Energy Commission The Elusive Neutrino

1969: Kip S. Thorne Science Year "The Death of a Star"