Children's Book Prize Archive
Royal Society Prize for Science Books
Annual
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Previously known as the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books. The winners are chosen annually from entries submitted by publishers.
Awarded to a popular non-fiction science and technology book, it aims to encourage the writing, publishing and sale of popular science books. There are two main categories; a Junior Prize for the best book written for under 14's, and a General Prize for the best book written for the general reader. The prize for each category is £10,000 and up to five shortlisted authors in each category receive £1,000 each. A panel of judges pick the General Prize winner, groups of young people in judging panels across the UK pick the Junior Prize winner.
Awarded in October.
Most Recent Winner
General: The age of wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science, Richard Holmes (Harper)
Previous Winners
General: Six degrees: Our future on a hotter planet, Mark Lynas (Fourth Estate)
General: Stumbling on happiness, Daniel Gilbert (Harper Press)
General: Electric Universe - How Electricity Switched on the Modern World, David Bodanis (Little)
General: Critical Mass: One Thing Leads to Another, Philip Ball (William Heinemann)
General: A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (Doubleday/Transworld)
General: Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry, Chris McManus
General: The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking (Bantam Press)
General: apping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, Robert Kunzig M (Sort of Books)
General: The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene The Elegant Universe (Cape)
General: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman (Fourth Estate)
General: Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years, Jared Diamond (Cape)
Horrible Science: Blood, Bones and Body Bits, Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles (Scholastic) and
Horrible Science: Ugly Bugs, Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles (Scholastic)
General: The Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins, Alan Walker and Pat Shipman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
General: Plague's Progress, Arno Karlen (Gollancz)
General: The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, John Emsley (WH Freeman)
Eyewitness Guide: Evolution, Linda Gamlin (Dorling Kindersley),
Science with Weather, Rebecca Heddle & Paul Shipton (Usborne) and
The Ultimate Dinosaur Book, David Lambert (Dorling Kindersley)
General: The Language of the Genes, Steve Jones (HarperCollins)
General: The Making of Memory, Steven Rose (Bantam)
The Amazing Voyage of the Cucumber Sandwich, Peter Rowan and
How Nature Works, David Burnie (Dorling Kindersley)
General: The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond (Hutchinson Radius)
General: Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould (Hutchinson Radius)
Under 8: The Giant Book of Space, Ian Ridpath (Hamlyn)
General: The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose (Oxford University Press)
General: Bones of Contention, Roger Lewin (Simon & Schuster)
General: Living With Risk, BMA Board of Science (BMA & John Wiley)
