El Premio de escritura científica fue instituido por la Instituto Estadounidense de Física (AIP) para "promover la efectividad de ciencias de la comunicación en los medios de comunicación impresos y electrónicos con el fin de mejorar la apreciación del público en general, sobre la física, la astronomía, la ciencia y campos afines"Science Writing Award - American Institute of Physics El ganador recibe U$D 3.000, y una Silla Windsor grabada. Los galardones se dan en cuatro categorías: 1) obra de periodista, 2) obra de un científico en práctica, 3) obra vinculada a niños, 4) obra hecha en una radio.
Destacados ganadores de esta Ciencia popular, incluye Premios Nobel a Charles Townes, y Steven Weinberg; otros notables son: Simon Singh, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, John Wheeler, Kip Thorne, Leonard Susskind, Clifford Martin Will, Abraham Pais, Heinz Pagels, Banesh Hoffmann, Martin Gardner.
Ganadores anteriores Periodismo 2011: George Musser Scientific American "Could Time End?"
2010: Tom Zoellner Penguin Group "Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World"
2008: Ann Finkbeiner Viking/Penguin "The Jasons"
2007: Tim Folger Discover Magazine "If an Electron can be in Two Places at Once, Why Can't You?"
2006: Barbara Goldsmith WW Norton & 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-MakerBest Sci-Tech Books 2004: The Masters of Science Writing: 1 de marzo de 2005: Library Journal
2003: Diane Tennant The Virginian-Pilot "A Cosmic Tale"Diane Tennant, Virginian Pilot, "A Cosmic Tale", 13 de febrero de 2007. Visto el 28 de mayo de 2011
2002: no se otorgó
2001: Marcia Bartusiak Joseph Henry Press Einstein's Unfinished Symphony Science Writer Awarded AIP Cultural Prize
2000: Ron Cowen USA Today "Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"; Science News "Travelin' Light"; The Washington Post "Now Hear This!"
1999: Michael Lemonick Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe Simon & Schuster
1998: Robyn Suriano y 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 Discover Magazine "Welcome to Femtoland"
1994: Dick Teresi Omni Magazine "The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"
1993- Billy Goodman Air & Space Magazine "The Planet Hunters"
1992: Dennis Overbye 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 William & Morrow Inc Coming of Age in the Milky Way
1988: Richard Preston 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 Discover Magazine "Perpetual Commotion"
1983: 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 Omni Magazine "The Wizard of Time & Space"
1979: Robert C. Cowen The Christian Science Monitor "The New Astronomy"
1978: 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 National Geographic "Voyage to the Planets"
1970: C.P. Gilmore Popular Science "Can We Stop Earthquakes from Happening"
1969: Walter S. Sullivan The New York Times "Flight of Apollo 8"
1968: William J. Perkinson The Baltimore Sun "ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"
Científicos 2011: 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
2003: Ray Jayawardhana Astronomy Magazine "Beyond Black"
2002: Lawrence Krauss Little, Brown & Co Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...& Beyond
Mención Honorífica: Ken Croswell The Free Press The Universe at Midnight
2001: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Liu, y Robert Irion Joseph Henry Press One Universe
2000: Charles H. Townes 9Charles Townes) Oxford University Press How the Laser Happened
1999: John Wheeler y Kenneth Ford W.W. Norton Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam
1998: Leonard Susskind Scientific American Magazine Black Holes & 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 (Kip Thorne) W.W. Norton & Company Black Holes & 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 & 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 & Co. Nemesis: The Death Star
1985: Edwin C. Krupp MacMillan Publishing Company The Comet & You
1984: George Greenstein Freundlich Books Frozen Star
1983: Abraham Pais Oxford University Press Subtle Is the Lord...The Science & 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 & 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 & 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"
Niñez 2011: 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 & Jude Isabella Kids Can Press "Fantastic Feats & 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 Twenty-First Century Books, a Division of The Millbrook Press Worlds Beyond Series: Extrasolar Planets, The Sun, Jupiter, & 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 Henry Holt & Co. Earth Explained
1997: Donald Silver Silver Burdett Press Extinction is Forever
1996: Steve Tomecek W.H. Freeman & Co. Bouncing & Bending Light
1995: Sally Ride y Tam O'Shaughnessy Crown Publishers, Inc. The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space
1994: Wendy Baker, Andrew Haslam, y 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, y Maryann Cocca-Leffler Basic Books Splash! All About Baths
Medios de comunicación 2009: 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: John Palfreman WNET New York "Innovation: Light Speed"
2004: William S. Hammack "Public Radio Pieces" WILL-AM Radio
2003: Jim Handman, Pat Senson, y Bob McDonald CBC Radio "It's About Time"
2002: David Kestenbaum 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 Tiempo espacial
1999: Dan Falk CBC Radio De Empedocles a Einstein
1998: Sandy Rathbun y Dave Greenleaf KVOA-TV Asteroid: The Real Story
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