1. Winners: New Media

2. Past Winners: Journalist

3. Past Winners: Scientist

4. Past Winners: Children's

5. Past Winner: Broadcast Media

6. References

7. External links

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 awards 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)

Notable winners of this Science Writing Award include Nobel Prize winners Charles Townes and Steven Weinberg; other notables winners include Simon Singh, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, John Wheeler, Kip Thorne, Leonard Susskind, Clifford Martin Will, Abraham Pais, Heinz Pagels, Banesh Hoffmann, and Martin Gardner.

Winners: New Media

• 2012: - Anna Rothschild for Nova, "The Amazing Atomic Clock"

Past Winners: Journalist

• 2011: George Musser for Scientific American magazine,"Could Time End?"
• 2010: Tom Zoellner for Penguin Group, "Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World"
• 2008: Ann Finkbeiner for 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 for WW Norton and Atlas Books, "Obsessive Genius"
• 2005: Michael Moyer for Popular Science, "Journey to the 10th Dimension"
• 2004: J. Madeleine Nash for Warner Books, El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker^[2]
• 2003: Diane Tennant for The Virginian-Pilot,"A Cosmic Tale"^[3]
• 2002: No award given
• 2001: Marcia Bartusiak for Joseph Henry Press, Einstein's Unfinished Symphony^[4][5]
• 2000: Ron Cowen for USA Today, "Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"; Science News "Travelin' Light"; The Washington Post "Now Hear This!"
• 1999: Michael Lemonick, The Search for Life in the Universe, Simon & Schuster
• 1998: Robyn Suriano and Todd Halvorson for Florida Today, "Cassini: Debating the Risks"
• 1997: Hazel Muir for New Scientist Magazine "Watch Out, Here Comes the Sun" and "A Fast Rain's Going to Fall"
• 1996: K.C. Cole for The Los Angeles Times,(3 newspaper articles)
• 1995: Gary Taubes for Discover Magazine, "Welcome to Femtoland"
• 1994: Dick Teresi for Omni Magazine, "The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"
• 1993: Billy Goodman for Air & Space Magazine, "The Planet Hunters"
• 1992: Dennis Overbye for Harper Collins Publishers, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
• 1991: Charles Petit for Mosaic Magazine, "Vanishingly Close to Absolute Zero"
• 1990: Jerry Bishop for The Wall Street Journal, "Cold Fusion"
• 1989: Timothy Ferris for William & Morrow Inc, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
• 1988: Richard Preston for The Atlantic Monthly Press, First Light
• 1987: Shannon Brownlee and Allan Chen for Discover Magazine, "Waiting for the Big One"
• 1986: Arthur Fisher for Mosaic, "Chaos: The Ultimate Asymmetry"
• 1985: Ben Patrusky for World Book Yearbook, "The Wandering Continents"
• 1984: John Tierney for Discover Magazine,"Perpetual Commotion"
• 1983: Martin Gardner for Discover Magazine, "Quantum Weirdness"
• 1982: Marcia F. Bartusiak for Discover Magazine, "The Ultimate Timepiece"
• 1981: Leo Janus for Science 80 Magazine,"Timekeepers of the Solar System"
• 1980: Dennis Overbye for Omni Magazine, "The Wizard of Time and Space"
• 1979: Robert C. Cowen for The Christian Science Monitor, "The New Astronomy"
• 1978: Timothy Ferris for The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
• 1977: William D. Metz for Science Magazine, "Fusion Research"
• 1976: Frederic Golden for Time Magazine, "Forecast: Earthquake"
• 1975: Tom Alexander for Fortune Magazine, "Ominous Changes in the World's Weather"
• 1974: Patrick Young for The National Observer, "A Quake Is Due at..."
• 1973: Edward Edelson for The New York News, "The Mystery of Space"
• 1972: Jerry E. Bishop for The Wall Street Journal, "Celestial Clue"
• 1971: Kenneth Weaver for National Geographic, "Voyage to the Planets"
• 1970: C.P. Gilmore for Popular Science, "Can We Stop Earthquakes from Happening"
• 1969: Walter S. Sullivan for The New York Times, "Flight of Apollo 8"
• 1968: William J. Perkinson for The Baltimore Sun, "ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"

Past Winners: Scientist

2011: Dan Falk

Scientific magazine

2009 - Dan Falk

COSMOS magazine

2008 - Gino Segre

Viking/Penguin

2007 - James Trefil

Astronomy magazine

2006: Simon Singh

Harper Collins

2005: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

2004: Len Fisher

Arcade Publishing, Inc.

www.lenfisher.co.uk^[2]

2003: Ray Jayawardhana

Astronomy Magazine

2002: Lawrence Krauss

Little, Brown & Co

Honorable Mention: Ken Croswell

The Free Press

2001: Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion

Joseph Henry Press

2000: Charles H. Townes

Oxford University Press

1999: John Wheeler and Kenneth Ford,

W.W. Norton,

1998: Leonard Susskind,

Scientific American,

1997: Award postponed until 1998

1996: Mitchell Begelman & Martin Rees

W.H. Freeman & Co.

1995: Eric Chaisson

HarperCollins Publishing

1994: Kip S. Thorne

W.W. Norton & Company

1993: Hans C. von Baeyer

Random House

1992: David C. Cassidy

W.H. Freeman & Co.

1991: Harold Lewis

W.W. Norton & Co.

1990: Bruce Murray

W.W. Norton & Co.

1989: Mark Littmann

John Wiley & Sons

1988: Michael Riordan

Simon & Schuster

1987: Clifford Martin Will

Basic Books

1986: Donald Goldsmith

Walker and Company

1985: Edwin C. Krupp

Macmillan Publishing Company

1984: George Greenstein

Freundlich Books

1983: Abraham Pais

Oxford University Press

1982: Heinz Pagels

Simon & Schuster

1981: Eric Chaisson

Little, Brown & Company

1980: {{Interlanguage link multi|William J. Kaufmann, III|it}},

W.H. Freeman & Company

1979: Hans C. von Baeyer

Alumni Gazette, College of William & Mary

1978: Edwin C. Krupp

Doubleday & Company

1977: Steven Weinberg

Basic Books, Inc.

1976: Jeremy Bernstein

The New Yorker

1975: Robert H. March

Science Year

1974: Robert D. Chapman

'Comet Kohoutek

1973: Banesh Hoffmann

Viking Press

1972: Dietrich Schroeer

Addison-Wesley

1971: Robert H. March

MacGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.

1970: Jeremy Bernstein

(written for) Atomic Energy Commission

1969: Kip S. Thorne

Science Year

Past Winners: Children's

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 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"^[6]

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^[4]

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 Media

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

"Multiple Worlds, Parallel Universes"

2006: David Kestenbaum

"Einstein's Miraculous Year: How Smart was Einstein?"

2005: Jon Palfreman

"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?"^[4]

2000: Craig Heaps

KTVU- TV

Time & Space

Space Weather

1999: Dan Falk

CBC Radio

From Empedocles to Einstein

1998: Sandy Rathbun and Dave Greenleaf

Asteroid: The Real Story

References

External links

• [https://www.aip.org/aip/awards/science-communication Science Communication Awards] at AIP

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