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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One of SkyNews Best Astronomy ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of the Year 2013, chosen by SkyNews editor, Terence Dickinson
Donald K. Yeomans, One of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people 2013Donald K. Yeomans, Winner of the 2013 Carl Sagan Medal, American Astronomical Society
Winner of the 2002 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Physics and Astronomy, Association of American PublishersFinalist for the 2003 Aventis General Prize
Winner of the 2013 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
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 FoundationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic ¿ìɫֱ²¥ for 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2013 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
Honorable Mention for the 2011 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
Winner of the 2010 US Review of ¿ìɫֱ²¥'s Eric Hoffer Book Award in CultureWinner of the 2009 Silver Nautilus Book Awards in Cosmology/New Science
Finalist for the 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society
Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American PublishersShortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society Prizes for Science ¿ìɫֱ²¥, General Prize