Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
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The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is given annually by Phi Beta Kappa society to authors of significant books in the fields of science and mathematics. The award was first given in 1959 to anthropologist Loren Eiseley.[1]
Award winners
Source: Phi Beta Kappa Society
- 2023 - Jennifer Raff[2]
- 2022 - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein[3]
| Year | Book | Author | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World | Sarah Stewart Johnson | Astrobiology |
| 2020 | Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past | Sarah Parcak | Archaeology |
| 2019 | Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth | Adam Frank | Astrobiology |
| 2018 | Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert Sapolsky | Biology |
| 2017 | The Gene: An intimate history | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Biology |
| 2016 | The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History | Thor Hansen | Biology |
| 2015 | Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 2014 | Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian | A. Douglas Stone | Quantum Physics |
| 2013 | The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail—but Some Don't | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Statistics |
| 2012 | The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Denton | Global warming |
| 2011 | Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Global warming |
| 2010 | Complexity: A Guided Tour | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Complexity |
| 2009 | The Art and Politics of Science | Script error: No such module "Sort". | History of science |
| 2008 | Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 2007 | The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 2006 | Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Climatology |
| 2005 | The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and Humans | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 2004 | Isaac Newton | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Physics |
| 2003 | Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 2002 | A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate Change | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Climatology |
| 2001 | The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Climatology |
| 2000 | Cradle of Life: The Discovery of the Earth's Earliest Fossils | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Paleontology |
| 1999 | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Cosmology |
| 1998 | Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx & The Evolution of Bird Flight | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Paleontology |
| 1997 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sociology |
| 1996 | Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange, But Not as Strange as You Think | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Physics |
| 1995 | Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Bert Hölldobler | Biology |
| 1994 | Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Physics |
| 1993 | Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ecology |
| 1992 | One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1991 | Envisioning Information | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Statistics |
| 1990 | Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1989 | The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Physics |
| 1988 | Infinite in All Directions | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Cosmology |
| 1987 | Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Chemistry |
| 1986 | The Mystery of Comets | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Astronomy |
| 1985 | The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Science |
| 1984 | Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Astronomy |
| 1983 | Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1982 | Emerging Cosmology: Convergence | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Cosmology |
| 1981 | Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Cosmology |
| 1980 | The Image of Eternity: Roots of Time in the Physical World | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Physics |
| 1979 | Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Katherine Palmer Imbrie | Climatology |
| 1978 | Mechanics of the Mind | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Medicine |
| 1977 | The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Space colonization |
| 1976 | Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1975 | The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Medicine |
| 1974 | Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Paul H. Barrett | Biology |
| 1973 | The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Computation |
| 1972 | The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sociology |
| 1971 | Vitamin C and the Common Cold | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Medicine |
| 1970 | The Life and Death of a Salt Marsh | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ecology |
| 1969 | Antibodies and Immunity | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Medicine |
| 1968 | Great waters: A Voyage of Natural History to Study Whales, Plankton, and the Waters of the Southern Ocean | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1967 | Modern Genetics | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1966 | Man Adapting | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Medicine |
| 1965 | Bird Migration | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1964 | The Origin of Adaptations | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1963 | The Unseen World | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1962 | The World of Ice | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Climatology |
| 1961 | Communication Among Social Bees | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
| 1960 | The Forest and the Sea | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ecology |
| 1959 | Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Biology |
See also
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