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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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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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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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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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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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 Wavewatcher's Companion (category 2010 non-fiction books)
Companion is a 2010 science book by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The book was the 2011 winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. The book is a wide-ranging...
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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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A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives (category 2005 non-fiction books)
American Mind. A Mind of Its Own was longlisted for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books General Prize in 2007. Pigliucci, Massimo (2006). "Review of...
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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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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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Stuff Matters (category Science books)
Matters was a New York Times best seller and won the 2014 Royal Society Prize for Science Books as well as the 2015 National Academies Communication Award...
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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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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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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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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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Longitude (book) (category Science books)
Wayback Machine Prizes for Science Books previous winners and shortlists - The Prizes - The Royal Society "Non-fiction Outstanding Books for the College Bound...
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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 Nonfiction. A new edition...
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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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Siddhartha Mukherjee (category Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners)
New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. After completing secondary...
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winners. Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015. "New Canadian science-writing prize unveiled"...
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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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Jared Diamond (category Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 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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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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Eugenia Cheng (section Books)
shortlisted for the 2017 Insight Investment Science Book Prize under the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books. She published her third book, The Art of...
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