Awards & Recognition
¿ìɫֱ²¥ books have won numerous awards, including seven 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, the Holberg Prize, and the Cundill Prize. Every year, ¿ìɫֱ²¥ books are named among the year’s best reads by publications around the world.
To inquire about our awards program, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Winner of the ASLI Choice Award, Atmospheric Science Librarians InternationalWinner of the PROSE Award in Earth Science, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Special Book Award, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Winner of the Award of Excellence in Plants and Environmental Change, Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyFinalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Award, PEN American Center
One of EcoLit ¿ìɫֱ²¥' Best Environmental ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2018
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2015 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the ArtsHonorable Mention for the 2014 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of the Year 2014, chosen by Alison Stokes
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist