Science Writing Award

Winners: New Media

• 2012: - Anna Rothschild for Nova, "The Amazing Atomic Clock"

Past Winners: Books

• 2020: Susan Hockfield for The Age of Living Machines.
• 2019: Marcia Bartusiak for Dispatches from Planet 3.
• 2019: David Hu for How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls.
• 2018: David Baron for American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World.
• 2017: Timothy Jorgensen for Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation.
• 2016: Chris Woodford for Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home.
• 2015: Charles Adler for Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• 2014: Lee Billings for Five Billion Years of Solitude: the Search for Life Among the Stars.

Past Winners: Journalist

• 2011: George Musser for Scientific American magazine,"Could Time End?"
• 2010: Tom Zoellner for Penguin Group, "Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World"
• 2008: Ann Finkbeiner for Viking/Penguin,"The Jasons"
• 2007: Tim Folger, Discover Magazine,"If an Electron can be in Two Places at Once, Why Can't You?"
• 2006: Barbara Goldsmith for WW Norton and Atlas Books, "Obsessive Genius"
• 2005: Michael Moyer for Popular Science, "Journey to the 10th Dimension"
• 2004: J. Madeleine Nash for Warner Books, El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
• 2003: Diane Tennant for The Virginian-Pilot,"A Cosmic Tale"
• 2002: No award given
• 2001: Marcia Bartusiak for Joseph Henry Press, Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
• 2000: Ron Cowen for USA Today, "Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"; Science News "Travelin' Light"; The Washington Post "Now Hear This!"
• 1999: Michael Lemonick, Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe, Simon & Schuster
• 1998: Robyn Suriano and Todd Halvorson for Florida Today, "Cassini: Debating the Risks"
• 1997: Hazel Muir for New Scientist Magazine "Watch Out, Here Comes the Sun" and "A Fast Rain's Going to Fall"
• 1996: K.C. Cole for The Los Angeles Times,
• 1995: Gary Taubes for Discover Magazine, "Welcome to Femtoland"
• 1994: Dick Teresi for Omni Magazine, "The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"
• 1993: Billy Goodman for Air & Space Magazine, "The Planet Hunters"
• 1992: Dennis Overbye for Harper Collins Publishers, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
• 1991: Charles Petit for Mosaic Magazine, "Vanishingly Close to Absolute Zero"
• 1990: Jerry E. Bishop for The Wall Street Journal, "Cold Fusion"
• 1989: Timothy Ferris for William & Morrow Inc, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
• 1988: Richard Preston for The Atlantic Monthly Press, First Light
• 1987: Shannon Brownlee and Allan Chen for Discover Magazine, "Waiting for the Big One"
• 1986: Arthur Fisher for Mosaic, "Chaos: The Ultimate Asymmetry"
• 1985: Ben Patrusky for World Book Yearbook, "The Wandering Continents"
• 1984: John Tierney for Discover Magazine,"Perpetual Commotion"
• 1983: Martin Gardner for Discover Magazine, "Quantum Weirdness"
• 1982: Marcia Bartusiak for Discover Magazine, "The Ultimate Timepiece"
• 1981: Leo Janus for Science 80 Magazine,"Timekeepers of the Solar System"
• 1980: Dennis Overbye for Omni Magazine, "The Wizard of Time and Space"
• 1979: Robert C. Cowen for The Christian Science Monitor, "The New Astronomy"
• 1978: Timothy Ferris for The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
• 1977: William D. Metz for Science Magazine, "Fusion Research"
• 1976: Frederic Golden for Time Magazine, "Forecast: Earthquake"
• 1975: Tom Alexander for Fortune Magazine, "Ominous Changes in the World's Weather"
• 1974: Patrick Young for The National Observer, "A Quake Is Due at..."
• 1973: Edward Edelson for The New York News, "The Mystery of Space"
• 1972: Jerry E. Bishop for The Wall Street Journal, "Celestial Clue"
• 1971: Kenneth Weaver for National Geographic, "Voyage to the Planets"
• 1970: C.P. Gilmore for Popular Science, "Can We Stop Earthquakes from Happening"
• 1969: Walter S. Sullivan for The New York Times, "Flight of Apollo 8"
• 1968: William J. Perkinson for The Baltimore Sun, "ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"

Past Winners: Scientist

Past Winners: Children's

Past Winner: Broadcast Media