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Science Writing Award The American Institute of Physics (AIP) instituted 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."[1] The winner receives $3000, and an engraved Windsor chair. The award is given in three broad categories: 1) science writing, 2) work intended for children, and 3) work done in new media. The AIP stopped issuing awards to three categories: 1) work by a professional journalist (last awarded in 2011) 2) work by a scientist (last awarded in 2009), and 3) broadcast media (last awarded in 2009) Winners of this Science Writing Award include Nobel Prize winners Charles Townes, Steven Weinberg, and Kip Thorne; other notable winners include Simon Singh, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, John Wheeler, Leonard Susskind, Clifford Martin Will, Abraham Pais, Heinz Pagels, Banesh Hoffmann, and Martin Gardner. Marcia Bartusiak has won the award three times, twice for her books (in 2019 and 2001) and once for her journalism (in 1982). Winners: New Media
Past Winners: Books
Past Winners: Journalist
Past Winners: Scientist2011: Dan Falk Scientific magazine Could Time End? 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[10] 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[12] 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, 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 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: Harold 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 Martin 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 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 Quandary 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 Past Winners: Children's2011: Vicki Wittenstein Boyds Mills Press "Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths" 2010: Gillian Richardson Annick Press Ltd. "Kaboom! Explosions of All Kinds" 2009: Cora Lee and Gillian O'Reilly Annick Press "The Great Number Rumble: A story of Math in Surprising Places" 2008: Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel Charlesbridge "SNEEZE! 2007: Jacob Berkowitz Kids Can Press "Jurassic Poop" 2006: David Garrison, 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"[14] 2003: Ron Miller 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[12] 2000: Jill Frankel Hauser Williamson Publishing Science Play! Gizmos & Gadgets 1999: Elaine Scott Hyperion Books for Children Close Encounters 1998: Barbara Taylor 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 and Tam O'Shaughnessy Crown Publishers, Inc. The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space 1994: Wendy Baker, Andrew Haslam, and Alexandra Parsons Macmillan Make it Work! 1993: Gail Gibbons Holiday House Stargazers 1992: Gloria Skurzynski Bradbury Press Almost The Real Thing 1991: Richard Maurer Simon & Schuster Inc. Airborne 1990: David Macaulay 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 Media2009: Tom Shachtman and David Dugan Windfall Films in collaboration with Meridian Productions and broadcast on WGBH/NOVA in association with TPT/Twin Cities Public Television "Absolute Zero" 2008: Julia Cort WGBH/NOVA scienceNOW "Asteroid" 2007: Jim Handman, Pat Senson, and Bob McDonald CBC Radio "Multiple Worlds, Parallel Universes" 2006: David Kestenbaum National Public Radio "Einstein's Miraculous Year: How Smart was Einstein?" 2005: Jon 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 National Public Radio "Measuring Muons" (RealMedia file) 2001: Jon Palfreman WGBH- Frontline/NOVA "What's Up with the Weather?"[12] 2000: Craig Heaps KTVU- TV Time & Space Space Weather 1999: Dan Falk CBC Radio From Empedocles to Einstein 1998: Sandy Rathbun and Dave Greenleaf KVOA-TV Asteroid: The Real Story References
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