2006: Simon Singh Harper Collins Big Bang 2005: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Natural History Magazine In the Beginning 2004: Len Fisher Arcade Publishing, Inc. How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life www.lenfisher.co.uk[10] 2003: Ray Jayawardhana Astronomy Magazine Beyond Black 2002: Lawrence Krauss Little, Brown & Co Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond Honorable Mention: Ken Croswell The Free Press The Universe at Midnight 2001: Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion Joseph Henry Press One Universe[12] 2000: Charles H. Townes Oxford University Press How the Laser Happened 1999: John Wheeler and Kenneth Ford, W.W. Norton, Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam 1998: Leonard Susskind, Scientific American, Black Holes and the Information Paradox 1997: Award postponed until 1998 1996: Mitchell Begelman & Martin Rees W.H.
Journey Into Space 1989: Mark Littmann John Wiley & Sons Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System 1988: Michael Riordan Simon & Schuster The Hunting of the Quark 1987: Clifford Martin Will Basic Books Was Einstein Right?
Explosions of All Kinds" 2009: Cora Lee and Gillian O'Reilly Annick Press "The Great Number Rumble: A story of Math in Surprising Places" 2008: Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel Charlesbridge
1993: Gail Gibbons Holiday House Stargazers 1992: Gloria Skurzynski Bradbury Press Almost The Real Thing 1991: Richard Maurer Simon & Schuster Inc. Airborne 1990: David Macaulay Houghton Mifflin Company The Way Things Work 1989: Gail Kay Haines Putnam & Grosset Micromysteries 1988: Susan Kovacs Buxbaum, Rita Golden Graham, and Maryann Cocca-Leffler Basic Books Splash!
All About Baths 2009: Tom Shachtman and David Dugan Windfall Films in collaboration with Meridian Productions and broadcast on WGBH/NOVA in association with TPT/Twin Cities Public Television "Absolute Zero" 2008: Julia Cort WGBH/NOVA scienceNOW "Asteroid" 2007: Jim Handman, Pat Senson, and Bob McDonald CBC Radio "Multiple Worlds, Parallel Universes" 2006: David Kestenbaum National Public Radio "Einstein's Miraculous Year: How Smart was Einstein?"