Science Communication Awards winners - Scientist

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
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 J. Chaisson
HarperCollins Publishing
The Hubble Wars

1994 - Kip S. 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 - H.W. 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 M. 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 R. 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 Quandry 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"