Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients[edit]

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1989 Frans de Waal Peacemaking Among Primates Winner [1]
Francis Crick What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery Finalist [2]
F. Gonzalez-Crussi The Five Senses
David L. Hull Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science
Max F. Perutz Is Science Necessary?: Essays on Science and Scientists
1990 Jane S. Smith Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine Winner [3]
Robert Scott Root-Bernstein Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge Finalist [3]
Christopher Manes Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
John Alcock Sonoran Desert Summer
John McPhee The Control of Nature
1991 Grigori Medvedev The Truth About Chernobyl Winner [4]
Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe Finalist [4]
William H. Calvin The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence
Robert Kanigel The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Sy Montgomery Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas
1992 Jared Diamond The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Winner [5]
Steven Levy Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology Finalist [5]
John Gribbin Blinded By The Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark Matter
Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness Explained
Stanley Coren The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-Handedness
1993 Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World Winner [6]
Daniel Crevier AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence Finalist [6]
Gary Taubes Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion
James Gleick Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Edward O. Wilson The Diversity of Life
1994 Jonathan Weiner The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Winner [7]
Robert Pollack Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA Finalist [7]
Peter Ward The End of Evolution
Alan Cromer Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science
Robert M. Sapolsky Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
1995 Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Winner [8]
Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Finalist [8]
Antonio R. Damasio Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Ken Croswell The Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the Milky Way
Robert Wright The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
1996 Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Winner [9]
Amir D. Aczel Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem Finalist [9]
George Johnson Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
James Howard Kunstler Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
Charles E. Little The Dying of the Trees
Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan The Forgotten Pollinators
Hugh Aldersey-Williams The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball
1997 Steven Pinker How the Mind Works Winner [10]
Richard Rhodes Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague Finalist [10]
David Deutsch The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications
Robert M. Sapolsky The Trouble With Testosterone And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament
David Harry Grinspoon Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet
1998 Douglas Starr Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce Winner [11]
Simon Mawer Mendel’s Dwarf Finalist [12]
V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Pat Shipman Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
Daniel J. Kevles The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
1999 Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Winner [11]
Alison Jolly Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution Finalist [13]
Bernd Heinrich Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-Birds
Simon Singh The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Edward Hooper The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
2000 James Le Fanu, M.D. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine Winner [11]
Karl Sabbagh A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud Finalist [14]
David Bodanis E = mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
Dennis Overbye Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance
Matt Ridley Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
2001 Richard Hamblyn The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies Winner [11]
David Hancocks A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future Finalist [15]
Sarah Flannery and David Flannery In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Bryan Sykes The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
2002 Brenda Maddox Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Winner [11]
Deborah Blum Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection Finalist [16]
Judith Hooper Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale
Mark Kurlansky Salt: A World History
Richard Preston The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
2003 Philip J. Hilts Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation Winner [17]
Stephen S. Hall Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension Finalist [17]
David Baron The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature
Chandler Burr The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Paul Hoffman Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
2004 Charles Wohlforth The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change Winner [18]
Jonathan Weiner His Brother’s Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine Finalist [18]
Alan Tennant On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
Lauren Slater Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Ann Parson The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine
2005 Diana Preston Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima Winner [19]
Brad Matsen Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss Finalist [20]
Sean B. Carroll Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
Mariana Gosnell Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science
2006 Eric R. Kandel In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind Winner [21][22]
Edward O. Wilson The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth Finalist [23]
Ann Gibbons The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
Joyce Chaplin The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
Daniel J. Levitin This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
2007 Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop Winner [24]
James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence Finalist [24]
Gino Segrè Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
Daniel Lord Smail On Deep History and the Brain
Christine Kenneally The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
2008 Leonard Susskind The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics Winner [25][26]
Carl Zimmer Microcosm: E.Coli and the New Science of Life Finalist [27]
Kenneth R. Miller Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul
Avery Gilbert What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
Martin J. S. Rudwick Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
2009 Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom Winner [28]
Richard Wrangham Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Finalist [29]
Bill Streever Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places
Carol Kaesuk Yoon Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Marcia Bartusiak The Day We Found the Universe
2010 Oren Harman The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness Winner [30]
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Finalist [31]
Lauren Redniss Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2011 Sylvia Nasar Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius Winner [32]
Joel Achenbach A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher Finalist [33]
Holly Tucker Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
James Gleick The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Mara Hvistendahl Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
2012 Florence Williams Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History Winner [34][35]
Susan Cain Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Finalist [36]
Nate Silver The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t
Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
George Dyson Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
2013 Alan Weisman Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Winner [37]
Virginia Morell Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures Finalist [38]
Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Annalee Newitz Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Matthew D. Lieberman Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect
2014 Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Winner [39][40]
Michael Benson Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time Finalist [41]
Christian Rudder Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
Martin J. Blaser MD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues
Naomi Klein This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
2015 Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Winner [42]
Beth Shapiro How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction Finalist [42]
John Markoff Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
Jonathan Waldman Rust: The Longest War
David J. Morris The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
2016 Luke Dittrich Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Winner [43]
Mary Roach Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War Finalist [44]
Ed Yong I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Bruce Watson Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
Sonia Shah Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
2017 Robert Sapolsky Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Winner [45]
Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution Finalist [46]
Max Tegmark Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Cornelia Dean Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
Matthew Walker Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
2018 Beth Macy Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Winner [47]
Eliza Griswold Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Finalist [48]
Rose George Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Marcia Bjornerud Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Mona Hanna-Attisha What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
2019 Maria Popova Figuring Winner [49][50]
Katherine Eban Bottle of Lies: the Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom Finalist [51]
Adam Higginbotham Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Caroline Criado Perez Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Angela Saini Superior: The Return of Race Science
2020 Sara Seager The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir Winner [52]
Ainissa Ramirez The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another Finalist [53]
Brian Christian The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Lulu Miller Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Patrik Svensson The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
2021 Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred Winner [54]
Katharine Hayhoe Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World Finalist [55]
Emma Marris Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
Meghan O'Gieblyn God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Scott Weidensaul A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
2022 Sabrina Imbler How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures Winner [56]
Jessica Hernandez Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science Finalist
Juli Berwald Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
James Vincent Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement From Cubits to Quantum Constants
Ed Yong An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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