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.
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Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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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
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 ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2019
One of Nature's Top Ten ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2019
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
Winner of the 1996 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, History of Science SocietyShortlisted 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
Honorable Mention for the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Physics and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
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 ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
Winner of the 1996 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995
Winner of the 2010 Cheiron Book Prize from Cheiron, International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyWinner of the 2004 Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society
Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science SocietyWinner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference