Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology

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 +Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.1989Peacemaking Among PrimatesWinnerWhat Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific DiscoveryFinalistScience as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of ScienceIs Science Necessary?: Essays on Science and Scientists1990Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk VaccineWinnerDiscovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific KnowledgeFinalistGreen Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of CivilizationSonoran Desert Summer1991WinnerLonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the UniverseFinalistWalking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas1992WinnerArtificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet BiologyFinalistBlinded By The Light: New Theories About the Sun and the Search for Dark MatterConsciousness Explained1993 and Paul FreibergerFuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our WorldWinnerAI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial IntelligenceFinalistBad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold FusionGenius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman1994WinnerSigns of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNAFinalistUncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of ScienceWhy Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers1995NaturalistWinnerAn Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesFinalistDescartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain1996WinnerFermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical ProblemFinalistFire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for OrderHome from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century and Gary Paul Nabhan1997How the Mind WorksWinnerDeadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueFinalistVenus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet1998Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceWinnerMendel’s DwarfFinalist and Sandra BlakesleePhantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human MindTaking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight1999Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and LoveWinnerLucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human EvolutionFinalistMind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-Birds2000, M.D.WinnerFinalistE = mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous EquationEinstein in Love: A Scientific RomanceGenome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters2001WinnerFinalist and David FlanneryIn Code: A Mathematical JourneyUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood2002Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNAWinnerLove at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionFinalistOf Moths and Men: An Evolutionary TaleSalt: A World History2003Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationWinnerMerchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life ExtensionFinalistWings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight2004WinnerHis Brother’s Keeper: A Story from the Edge of MedicineFinalistOn the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine FalconOpening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century2005Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaWinnerDescent: The Heroic Discovery of the AbyssFinalistEndless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo DevoIce: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance2006In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindWinnerFinalistThis Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession2007I Am a Strange LoopWinner and Carol Grant GouldArchitects: Building and the Evolution of IntelligenceFinalistFaust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of PhysicsOn Deep History and the Brain2008WinnerMicrocosm: E.Coli and the New Science of LifeFinalistOnly a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s SoulWhat the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday LifeWorlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform2009WinnerCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanFinalistCold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen PlacesNaming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science2010Winner and Erik M. ConwayMerchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global WarmingFinalistRadioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout2011Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusWinnerFinalistBlood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific RevolutionUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men2012Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryWinnerQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop TalkingFinalistTuring’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe2013Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?WinnerAnimal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow CreaturesFinalist and Scott O. LilienfeldBrainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless NeuroscienceScatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionSocial: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect2014WinnerCosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through TimeFinalistDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)MD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plaguesThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate2015WinnerHow to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-ExtinctionFinalistMachines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and RobotsRust: The Longest War2016Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family SecretsWinnerGrunt: The Curious Science of Humans at WarFinalistI Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of LifeLight: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum AgePandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond2017Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstWinner and Samuel H. SternbergFinalistLife 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceMaking Sense of Science: Separating Substance from SpinWhy We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams2018Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaWinnerAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericaFinalistNine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of BloodTimefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the WorldWhat the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City2019FiguringWinnerBottle of Lies: the Inside Story of the Generic Drug BoomFinalistMidnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear DisasterInvisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for MenSuperior: The Return of Race Science2020WinnerFinalistWhy Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life2021Dr. WinnerSaving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided WorldFinalistWild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human WorldGod, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning2022How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea CreaturesWinnerFresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous ScienceFinalist Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral ReefsBeyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement From Cubits to Quantum Constants2023Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest TruthsWinnerFinalist and Kelly Weinersmith

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