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News & Views item - June 2010 |
Royal Society 2010 Prize for Science Books Longlist Announced. (June 18, 2010)
The longlist for this year’s Royal Society Prize for Science Books has been announced. The judges selected a longlist of twelve books. Maggie Philbin, Chair of the judges, said: “There were some fascinating books in this year’s entries, all of which explore science in very different ways.
This year’s longlist includes eight authors who are new to the prize, three who have been previously shortlisted and one previous winner (Steve Jones, who won in 1994).
The judges on the judging panel are: Maggie Philbin, Radio and television presenter (Chair); Professor Tim Birkhead, Fellow of the Royal Society; Tracy Chevalier, author; Robin Ince, stand-up comedian, writer and actor; Dr Janet Anders, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow.
The shortlist will be announced on 24th August 2010. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Royal Society on 21st October 2010 and awarded £10,000. The authors of each shortlisted book will receive £1000.
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We Need To Talk About Kelvin by
Marcus Chown (Faber and Faber) Why Does E=mc2? By Brian Cox and Jeff
Forshaw (Da Capo Press, Perseus Books Group) Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne (Oxford
University Press) In Search of the Multiverse by John Gribbin
(Allen Lane, Penguin Press) Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion
Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell (Oxford
University Press) God’s Philosophers: How the medieval world laid the
foundations of modern science by James Hannam (Icon Books) Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen
(Bloomsbury) Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
by Steve Jones (Little, Brown) Life Ascending by Nick Lane (Profile Books) The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the
Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist (Yale
University Press) Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
(Oxford University Press) A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack (Avery
Books, Penguin Group) |