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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![Dynamics of Planetary Systems](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691207117.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology, Association of American Publishers
![Spark](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691232652.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Cosmology’s Century](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691201665.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
![Alien Oceans](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691179513.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of NPR's best books of 2020
![The Cosmic Web](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691181172.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Symmetry Magazine’s Physics Books of 2016
![Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691188560.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Co-Winner of the 2015 Gruber Cosmology Prize for Theoretical and Experimental Explorations of the Universe (with John Carlstrom and Lyman Page), The Gruber Foundation
![The Little Book of Black Holes](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691163727.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Frans Pretorius, Winner of the 2017 New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics
![Strange Glow](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691178349.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2017 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of Physics
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Science Books of 2016
#6 on The Telegraph’s Top 50 Books of the Year 2016
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year, 2016
Shortlisted for Physics World's Book of the Year 2016
![Near-Earth Objects](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173337.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Donald K. Yeomans, Winner of the 2013 Carl Sagan Medal, American Astronomical Society
![The Extravagant Universe](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691173184.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2003 Aventis General Prize
![Welcome to the Universe](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691157245.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Men’s Journal’s 40 Best Books of 2016
One of Symmetry Magazine’s Physics Books of 2016
One of Ars Technica’s 12 engrossing nonfiction books from 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Popular Science Books of 2016: Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Longlisted for the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books
![Dreams of Other Worlds](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691169224.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Heart of Darkness](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165776.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
![Dreams of Other Worlds](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691147536.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Strange New Worlds](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691158075.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
One of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books for 2011
![Biophysics](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400845576.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Near-Earth Objects](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691149295.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Donald K. Yeomans, Winner of the 2013 Carl Sagan Medal, American Astronomical Society
![How Old Is the Universe?](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691156286.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
![Beyond UFOs](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691149882.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2009 Silver Nautilus Book Awards in Cosmology/New Science
Finalist for the 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society
![The Universe in a Mirror](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691146355.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society
![The Sun Kings](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691141268.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, General Prize
![Thermodynamics](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400826971.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Beyond UFOs](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691135496.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Finalist for the 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society