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The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in Popular Science is awarded annually for the best book written in English and aimed at a broad audience. Eligible books ". . . should be introductory in assuming no previous knowledge of the subject and in being directed to audiences of beginning students and general readers." The latest winner of the Davis Prize is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the prize. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The Latest Winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in Popular Science 2006 - Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by Robin Marantz Henig [2007 award will be announced November 2008]
All past Winners of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in Popular Science
1987 - Science in the Enlightenment by Thomas L. Hankins
1988 - The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science by John L. Heilbron
1989 - Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
1990 - The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA Science, Technology, and Policy by Robert W. Smith
1991 - Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice by Nancy G. Siraisi
1992 - Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives by John Hedley Brooke
1993 - Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by James Moore and Adrian Desmond
1994 - The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 by David C. Lindberg
1995 - A History of Mathematics, An Introduction by Victor J. Katz
1996 - Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Margaret C. Jacob
1997 - Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1998 - Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime
1999 - The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by Daniel J. Kevles
2000 - Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film by Gregg Mitman
2001 - The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life by Nancy Tomes
2002 - Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 by Peter Dear
2003 - The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World by Ken Alder
2004 - The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atomic Bomb by Jeff Hughes
2005 - Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader by Alan M. Kraut
2006 - Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by Robin Marantz Henig
2007 - Will be announced November 2008
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