Phi Beta Kappa Award in ScienceShortlist

Given by Phi Beta Kappa Society

22 Works 4,225 Books 140 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is given by the Phi Beta Kappa Society for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. The intent of the award is to encourage show more literate and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics. Monographs and compendiums are not eligible. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (65), Shortlist (22)
Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (4), , 2019 (4)

Shortlist 22

WorkYear
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin2023
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems by Professor Joseph L Graves Jr. Ph.D2023
A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease by Shilpa Ravella2023
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow by Nicole Yunger Halpern2023
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2022
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg2022
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman2022
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation by Paul A. Offit (Author)2022
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek2022
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson2021
x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng2021
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less by James Hamblin2021
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio2021
Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su2021
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll2020
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution by Susan Hockfield2020
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza2020
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal2020
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud2019
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson2019
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson2019
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern2019

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