Awards & Recognition
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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![Radical by Nature](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691233796.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the PROSE Award in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
![The Mirror and the Mind](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691237251.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Slow Moon Climbs](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691171630.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![No Shadow of a Doubt](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691183862.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Best Astronomy and Space Books of 2019
One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019
![Creatures of Cain](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691181882.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize, British Society for the History of Science
![Conceptual Revolutions](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691186672.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Measure of Merit](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691187679.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691178530.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, Association of American Publishers
![The Visioneers](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691176291.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
![The Eternal Darkness](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691175621.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geography and Earth Sciences
Commonwealth Award for Science and Invention, Sigma Xi
Honorable Mention for the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geography and Earth Sciences, Association of American Publishers
![The Physicist and the Philosopher](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173177.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of The Independent.ie Irish Writers’ Top Reads 2015
One of Brainpickings’ The Best Science Books of 2015
![The Faith of a Physicist](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691633497.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Music of the Heavens](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691634821.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The Private Science of Louis Pasteur](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691633978.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995
![Tesla](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165615.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2015 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award, History Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
One of Amazon.com’s 2013 Best Science Books
One of Booklist Online’s Top 10 Science & Health Books for 2013
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
![Alan Turing: The Enigma](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691164724.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
The Imitation Game, Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
![Charles Darwin](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691114392.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2004 Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society
![Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780942299915.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
![Cosmology and Controversy](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691005461.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
![The Invisible World](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691017099.jpg?w=410&auto=format)