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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
A Waterstones Best Science Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
New Zealand Listener's Best Book of 2019One of FiveBooks' Best Climate Books of 2019
Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American PublishersOne of BBC Sky at Night Magazine's Best Astronomy and Space Books of 2019
One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019
Winner of the Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, History of Science SocietyShortlisted for the Pickstone Prize, British Society for the History of Science
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: Science
Shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize, British Society for the History of Science
Winner of the 1993 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in the History of Science, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Winner of the 2010 Cheiron Book Prize from Cheiron, International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
World's 2018 Books of the Year
Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Winners of the 2005 Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
Roger Penrose, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Chemistry & Physics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
Winner of the Commonwealth Award for Science and Invention, Sigma XiAssociation 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
One of Science Friday’s Best Science Books of 2015, chosen by Maria PopovaOne of The Independent.ie Irish Writers’ Top Reads 2015
One of Brainpickings’ The Best Science Books of 2015
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
John Polkinghorne, Winner of TEMPLETON PRIZE for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities
Honorable Mention for the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Physics and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 1996 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Winner of the 2015 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of TechnologyWinner 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
A New York Times Bestseller 2014, 2015The 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
Winner of the 2006 Book Award in Computers/Internet, Independent Publisher Book Awards
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Winner of the 2009 Wheatley Medal, Society of Indexers
Winner of the Pfizer Award,History of Science Society
Winner of the Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa 1973
Finalist for the 2006 Book Award in Science, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyWinner of the 2004 Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000
Walter Baade, Winner of the Leroy E. Doggett Prize
Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science SocietyWinner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998
Honorable Mention for the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Physics and Astronomy, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
Winner of the 1996 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in History, Association of American Publishers
Co-Winner of the 1991 Pfizer Most Outstanding Book Award, History of Science Society
Winner of the 1989 Pfizer Most Outstanding Book Award of the History of Science Society
Joseph Warren Dauben, Winner of the 2012 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society