Winner announced on
10 November
The winner of the world’s most prestigious
award for popular science writing will be announced at a public award
event on 10 November 2014. Each
of this year’s shortlisted authors will be reading a brief excerpt from
their book, followed by a panel discussion. At the close of the evening
Royal Society president Sir Paul Nurse will
announce the winner of 2014 prize.
The books shortlisted for this year’s prize
are:
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for
the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball (The Bodley Head)
Seven Elements That Have Changed The
World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon by John Browne (Weidenfeld &
Nicolson - an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group)
The Perfect Theory: A Century of
Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira (Little, Brown Book
Group)
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking
Medicine’s Deepest Mystery, by George Johnson (The Bodley Head)
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of
the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World by Mark Miodownik (Viking – an imprint
of Penguin Books)
Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary
Canal by
Mary Roach
(Oneworld)
The author of the winning book will receive
£25,000 and £2,500 each is awarded to the authors of the five shortlisted
books. Please see https://royalsociety.org/awards/science-books/
for further information.
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