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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Winner of the PROSE Award in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology Texbooks, Association of American PublishersWinner of the PROSE Award in Textbooks, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology Texbooks, Association of American PublishersFinalist for the PROSE Award in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing, Long-Form Nonfiction CategoryWinner of the Basic Sciences Book Award, International Academy of Astronautics
James Peebles, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in PhysicsFinalist for the PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the Young Adult Science Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science ¿ìɫֱ²¥One of NPR's best books of 2020
Steven S. Gubser, Winner of the 2017 Simons Investigator Award in Physics, Simons FoundationFrans Pretorius, Winner of the 2017 New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American PublishersWinner of the 2017 AIP Science Writing Award for ¿ìɫֱ²¥, American Institute of Physics
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Science ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2016
#6 on The Telegraph’s Top 50 ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of the Year 2016
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of Physics World's Top Ten ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of the Year, 2016
Shortlisted for Physics World's Book of the Year 2016
A New York Times BestsellerOne of Men’s Journal’s 40 Best ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2016
One of Symmetry Magazine’s Physics ¿ìɫֱ²¥ 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 ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2016: Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Longlisted for the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science ¿ìɫֱ²¥, Young Adult Science ¿ìɫֱ²¥
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American PublishersOne of Symmetry Magazine’s Physics ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2016
William Bialek, Winner of the 2013 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience