Royal Society Science Book Prize

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The Royal Society Science Book Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world.[1] It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since it was established in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson. In 2015 The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain".[2]

History

The Royal Society established the Science Books Prize in 1988 with the aim of encouraging the writing, publishing and reading of good and accessible popular science books. Its name has varied according to sponsorship agreements.

Years Name Sponsor
1990 – 2000 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books Rhône-Poulenc
2001 – 2006 Aventis Prize for Science Books Aventis
2007 – 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books none
2011 – 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books Winton Group
2016 – 2022 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize Insight Investment[3]
2023 – Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize Trivedi Foundation

Judging process

A panel of judges decides the shortlist and the winner of the Prize each year. The panel is chaired by a fellow of the Royal Society and includes authors, scientists and media personalities. The judges for the 2016 prize included author Bill Bryson, theoretical physicist Dr Clare Burrage, science fiction author Alastair Reynolds, ornithologist and science blogger GrrlScientist, and author and director of external affairs at the Science Museum Group, Roger Highfield.[3] In 2019, the jury consisted of Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Shukry James Habib, Dorothy Koomson, Stephen McGann, and Gwyneth Williams.[4]

All books entered for the prize must be published in English for the first time between September and October the preceding year. The winner is announced at an award ceremony and, since 2025Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., receives £25,000. Each of the other shortlisted authors receives £2,500.[1]

Shortlisted books

1988–2000

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books winners, 1988-2000[5]
Year Author Title Result
1988 British Medical Association Board of Science Living with Risk Winner
1989 Script error: No such module "Sort". Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins Winner
1990 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
1991 Script error: No such module "Sort". Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Winner
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner[6]
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". Plague's Progress Winner
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". and Pat Shipman Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". Guns, Germs, and Steel Winner[6]
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner

2000–2010

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books winners, 2000-2009[5]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Genome
Script error: No such module "Sort". Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Script error: No such module "Sort". Children of Prometheus
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Mapping the Deep Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Creation: Life and How to Make It Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Strange Beauty
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mendel's Demon
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mendeleyev's Dream
Script error: No such module "Sort". Malignant Sadness
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [7]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Aeons:The Search for the Beginning of Time Finalist
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Right Hand, Left Hand Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Small World Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Reckoning With Risk
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Where Is Everybody?
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". In The Beginning Was the Worm Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Magic Universe
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Richard Hollingham How to Clone the Perfect Blonde
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nature Via Nurture
Script error: No such module "Sort". Backroom Boys
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older
Script error: No such module "Sort". Matters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A User
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2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World Winner [9]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Finalist [6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos
Script error: No such module "Sort". Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Script error: No such module "Sort". Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
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2007<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Script error: No such module "Sort". Stumbling on Happiness Winner [10]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". In Search of Memory
Script error: No such module "Sort". Lonesome George
Script error: No such module "Sort". Homo Britannicus
Script error: No such module "Sort". One in Three
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Winner [11]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Gut Feelings
Script error: No such module "Sort". Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise
Script error: No such module "Sort". Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry
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2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [12]
Script error: No such module "Sort". What the Nose Knows Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bad Science [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Decoding the Heavens [12][13]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body [12][13]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Life Ascending Winner [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". We Need To Talk About Kelvin Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Jeff Forshaw Why Does E=mc2? [17]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science [19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". [20]

2011–2019

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books winners, 2010-2019[5]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Alex's Adventures in Numberland Finalist [22]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World [23]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science [24]
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2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Moonwalking with Einstein Finalist [27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". My Beautiful Genome [28]
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2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [31]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bird Sense Finalist [32][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life [34][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory [33]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Ocean of Life [36][33]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World Winner [37]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler Finalist [38][39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon [40][39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". [41][39]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal [42][39]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made Winner [2][43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [44]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Script error: No such module "Sort". Smashing Physics
Script error: No such module "Sort". Life's Greatest Secret
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Jim Al-Khalili Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [45][46]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [47]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body
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2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds Winner [48][49]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe Finalist [50]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Script error: No such module "Sort". In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Script error: No such module "Sort". To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Script error: No such module "Sort". I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain Winner [51][52]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [51]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Script error: No such module "Sort". Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Script error: No such module "Sort". Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Winner [53][54][55]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Six Impossible Things Finalist [54]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Script error: No such module "Sort". Clearing the Air
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Infinite Powers

Since 2020

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books winners, 2020–present[5]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Explaining Humans Winner [56][57][58]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Transcendence
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". Entangled Life Winner [59][60]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist
Script error: No such module "Sort". Breath
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Science Fictions
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [61][62]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [63][64]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
Script error: No such module "Sort". with Anjana Ahuja Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story
Script error: No such module "Sort". Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
2023 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [65]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) Finalist [66]
Script error: No such module "Sort"., trans. by Elizabeth de Noma Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Script error: No such module "Sort". Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
Script error: No such module "Sort". Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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2024 Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? Winner [67]
Cat Bohannon Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Finalist [68]
Tom Chivers Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
Kashmir Hill Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
Gísli Pálsson The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Venki Ramakrishnan Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality
2025 Masud Husain Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain Winner [69]
Neil Shubin Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future Finalist [70]
Daniel Levitin Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power
Simon Parkin The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
Sadiah Qureshi Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
Tim Minshall Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

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