| 2001 |
Richard B. Alley |
The Two-Mile Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future |
| 2000 |
J. William Schopf |
Cradle of Life: The Discovery of the Earth's Earliest Fossils |
| 1999 |
Brian Greene |
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest
for the Ultimate Theory |
| 1998 |
Pat Shipman |
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight |
| 1997 |
Jared Diamond |
Guns, Germs, and Steel |
| 1996 |
David Lindley |
Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But
Not as Strange as You Think |
| 1995 |
Edward O. Wilson & Bert Holldobler |
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration |
| 1994 |
Kip S. Thorne |
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy |
| 1993 |
Garrett Hardin |
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos |
| 1992 |
Ernst Mayr |
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary
Thought |
| 1991 |
Edward R. Tufte |
Envisioning Information |
| 1990 |
Stephen Jay Gould |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History |
| 1989 |
David Park |
The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical
Theory |
| 1988 |
Freeman Dyson |
Infinite in all Directions |
| 1987 |
Hugh D. Crone |
Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical Age |
| 1986 |
FRed L. Whipple |
The Mystery of Comets |
| 1985 |
Norma E. Emerton |
The Scientific Interpretation of Form |
| 1984 |
George Greenstein |
FRozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars |
| 1983 |
Stephen Jay Gould |
Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History |
| 1982 |
Sir Bernard Lovell |
Emerging Cosmology |
| 1981 |
Eric Chaisson |
Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life |
| 1980 |
David A. Park |
The Image of Eternity: Roots of Time in the Physical World |
| 1979 |
John Imbrie & Katherine Imbrie |
Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery |
| 1978 |
Colin Blakemore |
Mechanics of the Mind |
| 1977 |
Gerard K. O'Neill |
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space |
| 1976 |
William W. Warner |
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay |
| 1975 |
Guido Majno |
The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World |
| 1974 |
Howard E. Gruber & Paul H. Barrett |
Darwin on Man |
| 1973 |
Herman H. Goldstine |
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann |
| 1972 |
Barry Commoner |
The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology |
| 1971 |
Linus Pauling |
Vitamin C and the Common Cold |
| 1970 |
John & Mildred Teal |
The Life and Death of a Salt Marsh |
| 1969 |
G. J. V. Nossal |
Antibodies and Immunity |
| 1968 |
Sir Alistir Hardy |
Great Waters |
| 1967 |
Haig P. Papazian |
Modern Genetics |
| 1966 |
Rene Dubos |
Man Adapting |
| 1965 |
Donald R. Griffin |
Bird Migration |
| 1964 |
Verne Grant |
The Origin of Adaptations |
| 1963 |
Rene Dubos |
The Unseen World |
| 1962 |
James L. Dyson |
The World of Ice |
| 1961 |
Martin Lindauer |
Communication Among Social Bees |
| 1960 |
Marston Bates |
The Forest and the Sea |
| 1959 |
Loren Eisley |
Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It |
