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"
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