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American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies...

(AIP) institute their Science Writing Award to "promote effective science communication in print and broadcast media in order to improve the general public's appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied science fields." The winner receives $3000, and an engraved Windsor Chair

Windsor chair

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. The awards is given in four broad categories: 1) Work by a Professional Journalist, 2) work by a practicing scientist, 3) work intended for children, and 4) work done in broadcast media.

Notable winners of this Science Writing

Popular Science

Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the ASME awards for its journalistic excellence in both 2003 and 2004...

Award include Nobel Prize winners Charles Townes and Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....

; other notables winners include Simon Singh

Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....

, Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, a science communicator, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History...

, Lawrence Krauss, John Wheeler

John Wheeler

John Wheeler may refer to:* John Wheeler , American Emmy Award-winning audio/video engineer* John Wheeler , Union officer in the Civil War; killed at Gettysburg* John Wheeler John Wheeler may refer to:* John Wheeler (audio/video technologist) (born 1957), American Emmy Award-winning audio/video...

, Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists...

, Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology...

, Clifford Martin Will

Clifford Martin Will

Clifford Martin Will is a Canadian born mathematical physicist who is well known for his contributions to the theory of general relativity....

, Abraham Pais

Abraham Pais

Abraham Pais was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II...

, Heinz Pagels

Heinz Pagels

Heinz Rudolf Pagels was an American physicist, an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights...

, Banesh Hoffmann

Banesh Hoffmann

Banesh Hoffmann was a British mathematician and physicist known for his association with Albert Einstein.-Life:Banesh Hoffmann was born in Richmond, England, on 6 September 1906...

, and Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion...

Past Winners: Journalist

2006: Barbara Goldsmith

Barbara Goldsmith

Barbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. She has received critical and popular acclaim for her best selling books, essays, articles and her philanthropic work...

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

Ron Cowen

Ron Cowen is a writer and producer.-As a writer:* Queer as Folk TV Series * Sisters TV Series* The Love She Sought * An Early Frost * Paul's Case...

USA Today
"Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"; Science News "Travelin' Light"; The Washington Post "Now Hear This!"

1999: Michael Lemonick

Michael Lemonick

Michael Lemonick is the senior staff writer at Climate Central and a former senior science writer at Time magazine. He has also written for Discover magazine, Yale Environment 360, Scientific American, and others, and has written a number of popular-level books on science and astrophysics,...

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

Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes is an American science writer.He is the author of Nobel Dreams , Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion , and Good Calories, Bad Calories , titled The Diet Delusion in the UK and Australia. His book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It was released in December...

Discover Magazine
"Welcome to Femtoland"

1994: Dick Teresi

Dick Teresi

- Author and coauthor :Dick Teresi is an American writer. He is a co-author of The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? He is also a former editor of Omni....

Omni Magazine
"The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"

1993- Billy Goodman

Billy Goodman

William Dale Goodman was an infielder and left-handed batter who played Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox , Baltimore Orioles , Chicago White Sox and Houston Colt .45's ....

Air & Space Magazine
"The Planet Hunters"

1992: Dennis Overbye

Dennis Overbye

Dennis Overbye is a science writer specializing in physics and cosmology.-Biography:Overbye received his B.S. in physics from M.I.T.—where he was a member of the Alpha Mu chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma—in 1966. He started work towards a master's degree in astronomy from U.C.L.A...

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

Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris is a science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty and Coming of Age in the Milky Way , for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize...

William & Morrow Inc
Coming of Age in the Milky Way

1988: Richard Preston

Richard Preston

Richard Preston, born August 5, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., is a New Yorker writer and bestselling author perhaps best-known for his books about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism, although he has written other non-fiction works...

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

John Tierney (journalist)

John Marion Tierney is a journalist and author who has worked for the New York Times since 1990.-Career and background:...

Discover Magazine
"Perpetual Commotion"

1983: Martin Gardner

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

Dennis Overbye

Omni Magazine
"The Wizard of Time and Space"

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

1978: Timothy Ferris

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

Kenneth Weaver

Kenneth Franklin Weaver enjoyed a substantial 33-year career as a writer for the National Geographic Magazine. His prolific tenure with National Geographic produced articles encompassing a range of subjects until he retired as Senior Science Editor in 1985...

National Geographic
"Voyage to the Planets"

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

1969: Walter S. Sullivan

Walter S. Sullivan

Walter Seager Sullivan, Jr was considered the "dean" of science writers.Sullivan spent most of his career as a science reporter for the New York Times...

The New York Times
"Flight of Apollo 8"

1968: William J. Perkinson
The Baltimore Sun
"ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"

Past Winners: Scientist

2009 - Dan Falk

Dan Falk

Dan Falk is a Canadian science journalist, broadcaster, and author. He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Cottage Life, SkyNews, Astronomy and New Scientist, and has contributed to the CBC radio programs Ideas, Quirks and Quarks, Tapestry and Spark.He has published...

COSMOS magazine
"End of days: a universe in ruins"

2008 - Gino Segre
Viking/Penguin
"Faust in Copenhagen"

2007 - James Trefil

James Trefil

James S. Trefil is an American physicist and author of more than thirty books. Much of his published work focuses on science for the general audience. Dr...

Astronomy magazine
"Where is the Universe Heading?"

2006: Simon Singh

Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....

Harper Collins
"Big Bang"

2005: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Ray Jayawardhana

Ray Jayawardhana is an astronomer at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, and an award-winning science writer...

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

Ken Croswell

Ken Croswell is an astronomer and author living in Berkeley, California. His first degree mixed science and wider interests, majoring in physics and minoring in English literature. He also got a PhD in astronomy for studying the Milky Way's halo....

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 9Charles Townes)
Oxford University Press
How the Laser Happened

1999: John Wheeler

John Wheeler

and Kenneth Ford
W.W. Norton
Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam

1998: Leonard Susskind

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 Chaisson

Eric Chaisson

Eric J. Chaisson is an American astrophysicist and science educator best known for his research, teaching, and writing on the interdisciplinary science of cosmic evolution....

HarperCollins Publishing
The Hubble Wars

1994: Kip S. Thorne (Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists...

)
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: Harold Lewis

Harold Lewis

Harold Warren Lewis was an Emeritus Professor of Physics and former department chairman at the University of California, Santa Barbara...

W.W. Norton & Co.
Technological Risk

1990: Bruce Murray

Bruce Murray

Bruce Murray may refer to:*Bruce C. Murray, American planetary scientist*Bruce Murray , New Zealand cricketer*Bruce Murray , American soccer player*Bruce Murray , Radio sportscaster...

W.W. Norton & Co.
Journey Into Space

1989: Mark Littmann
John Wiley & Sons
Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System

1988: Michael Riordan

Michael Riordan

Michael Riordan was an attorney and San Francisco police officer who served as chief until a new Mayor Elmer Robinson administration was inaugurated.-History:...

Simon & Schuster
The Hunting of the Quark

1987: Clifford Martin Will

Clifford Martin Will

Clifford Martin Will is a Canadian born mathematical physicist who is well known for his contributions to the theory of general relativity....

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

Abraham Pais

Oxford University Press
Subtle Is the Lord...The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

1982: Heinz Pagels

Heinz Pagels

Simon & Schuster
The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

1981: Eric Chaisson

Eric Chaisson

Eric J. Chaisson is an American astrophysicist and science educator best known for his research, teaching, and writing on the interdisciplinary science of cosmic evolution....

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

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 Quandary Over Quarks"

1974: Robert D. Chapman
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Comet Kohoutek

1973: Banesh Hoffmann

Banesh Hoffmann

Banesh Hoffmann was a British mathematician and physicist known for his association with Albert Einstein.-Life:Banesh Hoffmann was born in Richmond, England, on 6 September 1906...

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"

Past Winners: Children's

2006: David Garrison

David Garrison

David Gene Garrison is an American actor. His primary venue is live theatre, but he may be more widely known for his numerous television roles, particularly that of Steve Rhoades on Married... with Children...

, Shannon Hunt and Jude Isabella
Kids Can Press
"Fantastic Feats and Failures"

2005: Bea Uusma Schyffert
Chronicle Books
"The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon"

2004: Marianne Dyson
National Geographic
"Home on the Moon: Living in the Space Frontier"

2003: Ron Miller

Ron Miller

Ron Miller may refer to:* Ron W. Miller, son-in-law of Walt Disney and CEO and president of Walt Disney Productions in the 1970s and 80s* Ronald H. Miller, author and a professor of religion at Lake Forest College* Ron E...

Twenty-First Century Books, a Division of The Millbrook Press
Worlds Beyond Series: Extrasolar Planets, The Sun, Jupiter, and Venus

2002: Fred Bortz
The Millbrook Press
Techno-Matter: The Materials Behind the Marvels

2001: Cynthia Pratt Nicolson
Kids Can Press
Exploring Space

2000: Jill Frankel Hauser
Williamson Publishing
Science Play!
Gizmos & Gadgets

1999: Elaine Scott
Hyperion Books for Children
Close Encounters

1998: Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor is a Canadian-born British-based historian and historical author specialising in Enlightenment history, gender studies, and the history of subjectivity. She is Professor of Modern History at the University of East London...

Henry Holt and Company
Earth Explained

1997: Donald Silver
Silver Burdett Press
Extinction is Forever

1996: Steve Tomecek
W.H. Freeman and Company
Bouncing & Bending Light

1995: Sally Ride

Sally Ride

Sally Kristen Ride is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman—and then-youngest American, at 32—to enter space...

and Tam O'Shaughnessy
Crown Publishers, Inc.
The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space

1994: Wendy Baker

Wendy Baker

Wendy Baker is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Canada. She was a member of the Women's Senior National Team, which finished sixth at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.-International Senior Tournaments:...

, Andrew Haslam

Andrew Haslam

Andrew Haslam was an Irish-Canadian sawmill-owner and Conservative politician. He served as the MLA for Nanaimo from 1889 to 1890. From 1892 to 1893, he was mayor of Nanaimo. He was chosen in a 1893 by-election to represent Vancouver in the Canadian House of Commons after the serving MP, David...

, and Alexandra Parsons
Macmillan
Make it Work!

1993: Gail Gibbons

Gail Gibbons

Gail Gibbons is an author and illustrator of children's books. With over 120 titles to her credit, Gibbons is a leader in the field of nonfiction, educational picture books....

Holiday House
Stargazers

1992: Gloria Skurzynski

Gloria Skurzynski

Gloria Joan Skurzynski is an American writer of books for young people, including both fiction and non-fiction.She was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania and educated at Carlow University. She is the author of more than sixty books for young readers.-Sources:Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale...

Bradbury Press
Almost The Real Thing

1991: Richard Maurer
Simon & Schuster Inc.
Airborne

1990: David Macaulay

David Macaulay

David Macaulay is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.- Biography :...

Houghton Mifflin Company
The Way Things Work

1989: Gail Kay Haines
Putnam & Grosset
Micromysteries

1988: Susan Kovacs Buxbaum, Rita Golden Graham, and Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Basic Books
Splash! All About Baths

Past Winner: Broadcast Media

2006: David Kestenbaum

David Kestenbaum

David Kestenbaum is an American radio correspondent for National Public Radio. He generally covers science, energy, and economic issues.-References:...

National Public Radio
"Einstein's Miraculous Year: How Smart was Einstein?"

2005: John Palfreman
WNET New York
"Innovation: Light Speed"

2004: William S. Hammack
"Public Radio Pieces" WILL-AM Radio

2003: Jim Handman, Pat Senson, and Bob McDonald
CBC Radio
"It's About Time"

2002: David Kestenbaum

David Kestenbaum

David Kestenbaum is an American radio correspondent for National Public Radio. He generally covers science, energy, and economic issues.-References:...

National Public Radio
"Measuring Muons" (Real Media file)

2001: Jon Palfreman
WGBH- Frontline/NOVA
"What's Up with the Weather?"

2000: Craig Heaps
KTVU- TV
Time & Space
Space Weather

1999: Dan Falk

Dan Falk

CBC Radio
From Empedocles to Einstein

1998: Sandy Rathbun and Dave Greenleaf
KVOA-TV
Asteroid: The Real Story

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