Royal Society Prize Winners
Set up in 1988 as the "Science Book Prizes", the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books were named the Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books from 199...more
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes    3.97 avg rating — 1,738 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2009)
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Six Degrees
by Mark Lynas 3.84 avg rating — 242 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2008)
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Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do
by Rebecca Gilpin  4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2008)
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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert 3.68 avg rating — 8,559 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2007)
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Can You Feel the Force?
by Richard Hammond 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2007)
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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
by David Bodanis 3.65 avg rating — 329 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2006)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond 3.89 avg rating — 15,955 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2006)
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The Global Garden
by Kate Petty 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2006)
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What Makes Me Me
by Robert Winston 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2005)
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball 3.80 avg rating — 302 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2005)
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson 4.14 avg rating — 45,213 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2004)
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Really Rotten Experiments
by Nick Arnold 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2004)
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
by Chris McManus 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2003)
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Ocean
by Frances Dipper 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2003)
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking 3.99 avg rating — 6,178 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2002)
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Human Body [With Clip-Art CD and Poster]
by Richard Walker 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2002)
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Weather
by Michael Allaby 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2001)
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Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
by Robert Kunzig 4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2001)
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DK Guide to Space
by Peter Bond 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (2000)
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene 4.05 avg rating — 13,508 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (2000)
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman 4.13 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (1999)
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The Complete Book of the Microscope
by Kirsteen Rogers 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (1999)
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The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Oceans (Kingfisher Book Of)
by David Lambert 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (1998)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond 3.96 avg rating — 51,910 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (1998)
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Ugly Bugs
by Nick Arnold 3.96 avg rating — 84 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (1997)
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
by Alan Walker 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (1997)
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Climbing Mount Improbable
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (1997)
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Blood, Bones and Body Bits
by Nick Arnold 3.99 avg rating — 222 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (1997)
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Plague's Progress: A Social History Of Man And Disease
by Arno Karlen 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
Royal Society Prize for General Prize (1996)
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The Most Amazing Science Pop-Up Book
by Jay Young 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
Royal Society Prize for Junior Prize (1995)
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