The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around...
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writing. In the UK, the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books are considered to be the most prestigious awards for science writing. In the US, the National...
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Metropolitan Books on July 14, 2020 and is Ritchie's second book. Science Fictions was nominated for the £25,000 Royal Society Prize for Science Books but lost...
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Daniel Gilbert (psychologist) (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
more than 30 languages and won the 2007 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books. He has also written essays for several newspapers and magazines, hosted...
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (category Popular science books)
books shortlisted for the 1994 Rhône-Poulenc Prize (now known as the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books), that was eventually won by Steve Jones' The...
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The Language of the Genes (category Popular science books)
published in 1993 and won the Rhône-Poulenc Prize (now known as the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books). The title of the book is partly the result...
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Junior Science Book Prize 1997 for Ugly Bugs Winner of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2004 awarded to Nick Arnold and Tony de Saulles for Really...
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Guy Deutscher (linguist) (section Books)
Deutscher, a former child prodigy composer and musician. 2011 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, shortlist, Through the Language Glass Deutscher, Guy (2000)...
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The Age of Wonder (redirect from The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science)
Romantic era. The book won the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, and the 2010...
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Nick Ross (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
Understanding of Science, chairman of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (twice), Guest Director of the Cheltenham Science Festival, chairman...
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The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics...
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in over a dozen languages. It was shortlisted for The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (junior prize - 2008) The third title in the series, "The Most...
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Nobel Prizes, because they are neither among the prizes established as part of Alfred Nobel's will nor, in the case of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
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Stumbling on Happiness (category 2006 non-fiction books)
2007, the book was awarded the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books general prize for the best science writing for a non-specialist audience. Positive...
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The Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize is awarded for "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences". Named after Michael Faraday, the...
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The Elegant Universe (redirect from The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory)
shortcomings. In 2000, it won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. A new edition...
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List in March 2015. Awards and nominations include The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (2008), Annecy International Animated Film Festival Grand...
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2005-01-03 The Royal Society, "Prizes for Science Books previous winners and shortlists" Archived June 19, 2018, at the Wayback Machine The Royal Society, 2008-12-31...
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chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society, and the...
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The Third Chimpanzee (category 1991 non-fiction books)
genocide tables. Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, previous winners and shortlists Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Science and Technology previous...
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Jared Diamond (category Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners)
College, Cambridge, England 2006 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for Collapse (shortlisted) 2006 Dickson Prize in Science 2008 PhD Honoris Causa at the...
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sponsorship of the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books which was rechristened the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Harding's foundation has also...
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Camilla Pang (category British science writers)
advocate. In 2020, she was awarded the Royal Society Prize for Science Books for her memoir, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and...
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SEK650 for a total of SEK60,000. Rhône-Poulenc originally funded the Rhône-Poulenc Prizes, now known as the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books. Chauveau...
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currently offers two prizes, one of €15,000 and the RDS Jago Award of €5,000. Both prizes also offer performance engagements. An additional prize, the RDS Collins...
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Roger Lewin (category British science writers)
won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books for Bones of Contention. In 2000, Lewin formed Harvest Associates with wife Birute Regine for business consulting...
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The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy...
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books for Alex's Adventures in Numberland 2010 Amazon.com, Best Books of 2010: Science for Here's Looking...
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Gianni A. Sarcone (category English science writers)
Illusion of the Year Contest 2017. "Optical illusions book". Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2018. "Magic Tic-Tac-Toe". Best Illusion of the Year Contest...
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The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; French: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French:...
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