Science Communication Awards winners - Journalist

2011 - George Musser
Scientific American magazine
"Could Time End?"

2010 - Tom Zoellner
Penguin Group
"Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World"

2008 - Ann Finkbeiner
Viking/Penguin
"The Jasons"

2007 - Tim Folger
Discover Magazine
"If an Electron can be in Two Places at Once, Why Can't You?"

2006 - Barbara Goldsmith
WW Norton and Atlas Books
"Obsessive Genius"

2005 - Michael Moyer
Popular Science
"Journey to the 10th Dimension"

2004 - J. Madeleine Nash
Warner Books
El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker

2003 - Diane Tennant
The Virginian-Pilot
"A Cosmic Tale"

2002 - No award given

2001 - Marcia Bartusiak
Joseph Henry Press
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

2000 - Ron Cowen
USA Today
"Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"

Science News
"Travelin' Light"

The Washington Post
"Now Hear This!"

1999 - Michael Lemonick
Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe
Simon & Schuster

1998 - Robyn Suriano and Todd Halvorson
Florida Today
"Cassini: Debating the Risks"

1997 - Hazel Muir
New Scientist Magazine
"Watch Out, Here Comes the Sun"
"A Fast Rain's Going to Fall"

1996 - K.C. Cole
The Los Angeles Times
(3 newspaper articles)

1995 - Gary Taubes
Discover Magazine
"Welcome to Femtoland"

1994 - Dick Teresi
Omni Magazine
"The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"

1993- Billy Goodman
Air & Space Magazine
"The Planet Hunters"

1992 - Dennis Overbye
Harper Collins Publishers
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos

1991 - Charles Petit
Mosiac Magazine
"Vanishingly Close to Absolute Zero"

1990 - Jerry Bishop
The Wall Street Journal
"Cold Fusion"

1989 - Timothy Ferris
William & Morrow Inc
Coming of Age in the Milky Way

1988 - Richard Preston
The Atlantic Monthly Press
First Light

1987 - Shannon Brownlee & Allan Chen
Discover Magazine
"Waiting for the Big One"

1986 - Arthur Fisher
Mosaic
"Chaos: The Ultimate Asymmetry"

1985 - Ben Patrusky
World Book Yearbook
"The Wandering Continents"

1984 - John Tierney
Discover Magazine
"Perpetual Commotion"

1983 - Martin Gardner
Discover Magazine
"Quantum Weirdness"

1982 - Marcia F. Bartusiak
Discover Magazine
"The Ultimate Timepiece"

1981 - Leo Janus
Science 80 Magazine
"Timekeepers of the Solar System"

1980 - Dennis Overbye
Omni Magazine
"The Wizard of Time and Space"

1979 - Robert C. Cowen
The Christian Science Monitor
"The New Astronomy"

1978 - Timothy Ferris
The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

1977 - William D. Metz
Science Magazine
"Fusion Research"

1976 - Frederic Golden
Time Magazine
"Forecast: Earthquake"

1975 - Tom Alexander
Fortune Magazine
"Ominous Changes in the World's Weather"

1974 - Patrick Young
The National Observer
"A Quake Is Due at..."

1973 - Edward Edelson
The New York News
"The Mystery of Space"

1972 - Jerry E. Bishop
The Wall Street Journal
"Celestial Clue"

1971 - Kenneth Weaver
National Geographic
"Voyage to the Planets"

1970 - C.P. Gilmore
Popular Science
"Can We Stop Earthquakes from Happening"

1969 - Walter Sullivan (dec'd)
The New York Times
"Flight of Apollo 8"

1968 - William J. Perkinson (dec'd)
The Baltimore Sun
"ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"