Royal Society Winton Prizes for Science Books

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2010
Life ascending : the ten great inventions of evolution by Nick Lane

2009
The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes

2008
Junior Prize:  The big book of science things to make and do, by Rebecca Gilpin and Leonie Pratt
General Prize:  Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet by Mark Lynas

2007
Junior Prize:  Can you feel the force? by Richard Hammond
General Prize:  Stumbling on happiness by Daniel Gilbert

2006
Junior Prize:  Global Garden by Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels and Corina Fletcher
General Prize:  Electric universe : how electricity switched on the modern world by David Bodanis

2005
Junior Prize:  What makes me, me? by Robert Winston
General Prize:  Critical mass : how one thing leads to another by Philip Ball

2004
Junior Prize:  Really rotten experiments by Nick Arnold & Tony De Saulles
General Prize:  A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

2003
Junior Prize:  The DK guide to the oceans by Dr. Frances Dipper
General Prize:  Right hand, left hand : the origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms, and cultures by Chris McManus

2002
Junior Prize:  DK guide to the human body by Richard Walker
General Prize:  The universe in a nutshell by Stephen Hawking

2001
Junior Prize:  DK guide to the weather by Michael Allaby
General Prize:  Mapping the deep : the extraordinary story of ocean science by Robert Kunzig

2000
Junior Prize:  DK guide to space by Peter Bond
General Prize:  The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory by Brian Greene

1999
Junior Prize:  The Usborne complete book of the microscope by Kirsteen Rogers
General Prize:  The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdös and the search for mathematical truth by Paul Hoffman

1998
Junior Prize:  The Kingfisher book of oceans by David Lambert
General Prize:  Guns, germs and steel : the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond

1997
Junior Prize:  Blood, bones and body bits and ugly bugs by Nick Arnold
General Prize:  The wisdom of the bones : in search of human origins by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman

1996
Junior Prize:  The world of weather by Chris Maynard
General Prize:  Plague's progress : a social history of man and disease by Arno Karlen (U. S. edition here)

1995
Junior Prize:  The most amazing pop-up science book by Jay Young
General Prize:  The consumer's good chemical guide : a jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life by John Emsley

1994
Junior Prize:  Eyewitness science : evolution by Linda Gamlin
General Prize:  The language of the genes : biology, history, and the evolutionary future by Steve Jones

1993
Junior Prize:  Mighty microbes by Thompson Yardley
General Prize:  The making of memory : from molecules to mind by Steven Rose

1992
Junior Prize:  The amazing voyage of the cucumber sandwich by Peter Rowan
General Prize:  The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

1991
Junior Prize:  Cells are Us; and Cell Wars by Fran Balkwill; illustrated by Mic Rolph
General Prize:  Wonderful life : the Burgess Shale and the nature of history by Stephen Jay Gould

1990
Junior Prize:  Winner (under 8) - The giant book of space by Ian Ridpath; Winner (under 14) - Starting Point Science Series: What Makes a Flower Grow?/What Makes it Rain?/What's Under the Ground?/Where Does Electricity Come From? by Susan Mayes
General Prize:  The emperor's new mind : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics by Roger Penrose

1989
Junior Prize:  The way things work by David Macaulay
General Prize:  Bones of contention : controversies in the search for human origins by Roger Lewin

1988
Junior Prize:  Science Alive - Living Things by Robin Kerrod
General Prize:  Living with risk by the British Medical Association Board of Science