The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is given annually by Phi Beta Kappa society to authors of significant books in the fields of science and mathematics. The award was first given in 1959 to anthropologist Loren Eiseley.
Award winners YearBookAuthorSubject2024What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures Ayana Elizabeth JohnsonGlobal warming2023Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas Jennifer RaffAnthropology2022The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinCosmology2021The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World Sarah Stewart JohnsonAstrobiology2020Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past Sarah Parcak Archaeology2019Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth Adam FrankAstrobiology2018 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert Sapolsky Biology2017 The Gene: An intimate history Siddhartha Mukherjee Biology2016 The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History Thor Hansen Biology 2015 Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle Biology 2014 Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian A. Douglas Stone Quantum Physics 2013 The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail—but Some Don't Statistics 2012 The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change , Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Denton Global warming 2011 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Global warming 2010 Complexity: A Guided Tour Complexity 2009 The Art and Politics of Science History of science 2008 Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Biology 2007 The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution Biology 2006 Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate Climatology 2005 The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and Humans Biology 2004 Isaac Newton Physics 2003 Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth Biology 2002 A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate Change Climatology 2001 The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future Climatology 2000 Cradle of Life: The Discovery of the Earth's Earliest Fossils Paleontology 1999 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Cosmology 1998 Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx & The Evolution of Bird Flight Paleontology 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Sociology 1996 Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange, But Not as Strange as You Think Physics 1995 Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration , Bert Hölldobler Biology 1994 Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy Physics 1993 Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos Ecology 1992 One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought Biology 1991 Envisioning Information Statistics 1990 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Biology 1989 The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory Physics 1988 Infinite in All Directions Cosmology 1987 Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age Chemistry 1986 The Mystery of Comets Astronomy 1985 The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form Science 1984 Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars Astronomy 1983 Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History Biology 1982 Emerging Cosmology: Convergence Cosmology 1981 Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life Cosmology 1980 The Image of Eternity: Roots of Time in the Physical World Physics 1979 Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery and Katherine Palmer Imbrie Climatology 1978 Mechanics of the Mind Medicine 1977 The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space Space colonization 1976 Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay Biology 1975 The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World Medicine 1974 Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity , Paul H. Barrett Biology 1973 The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann Computation 1972 The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology Sociology 1971 Vitamin C and the Common Cold Medicine 1970 The Life and Death of a Salt Marsh Ecology 1969 Antibodies and Immunity Medicine 1968 Great Waters: A Voyage of Natural History to Study Whales, Plankton, and the Waters of the Southern Ocean Biology 1967 Modern Genetics Biology 1966 Man Adapting Medicine 1965 Bird Migration Biology 1964 The Origin of Adaptations Biology 1963 The Unseen World Biology 1962 The World of Ice Climatology 1961 Communication Among Social Bees Biology 1960 The Forest and the Sea Ecology 1959 Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It Biology
See also
List of general science and technology awards Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
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