The 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award winner

Keyword(s):

Searching... Please wait.

The winner of the 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century by Burton Ritcher, published by Cambridge University Press.

Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science — List of Previous Winners

• 2010    Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press)

• 2009    Harold Varmus, The Art and Politics of Science (W.W. Norton and Company)

• 2008    Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Pantheon Books)

• 2007    Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Record of Evolution
                (W.W. Norton & Co.)

• 2006     William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took 
                Control of Climate (Princeton University Press)

• 2005     Chris Beard, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of 
                Monkeys, Apes and Humans (University of California Press)

• 2004     James Gleick, Issac Newton (Pantheon Books)
   
• 2003     Andrew H. Knoll, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of 
                Evolution on Earth (Princeton University Press)

• 2002     William H. Calvin, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate 
                Change (The University of Chicago Press)

• 2001     Richard B. Alley, The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate 
                Change, and Our Future (Princeton University Press)

• 2000     J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life: The Discovery of the Earth's Earliest Fossils 
                (Princeton University Press)

• 1999     Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the 
                Quest for the Ultimate Theory (W. W. Norton & Company)

• 1998     Pat Shipman, Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx & The Evolution of Bird Flight (Simon
                & Schuster)

• 1997     Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel (Norton)
   
• 1996     David Lindley, Where Does the Weirdness Go?  Why Quantum Mechanics Is 
                Strange, But Not as Strange as You Think (Basic Books)

• 1995     Edward O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler, Journey to the Ants:  A Story of
                Scientific Exploration (Harvard University Press)

• 1994     Kip S. Thorne, Black Holes & Time Warps:  Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy
                (Norton)

• 1993     Garrett Hardin, Living Within Limits:  Ecology, Economics, and Population 
                Taboos (Oxford University Press)

• 1992     Ernst Mayr, One Long Argument:   Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern 
                Evolutionary Thought (Harvard University Press)

• 1991     Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information (Graphics Press)
   
• 1990     Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life:  The Burgess Shale and the Nature of 
                History (Norton)

• 1989     David Park, The How And The Why:  An Essay on the Origins and Development
                of Physical Theory (Princeton University Press)

• 1988     Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions (Harper & Row)
   
• 1987     Hugh D. Crone, Chemicals and Society:  A Guide to the New Chemical Age 
                (Cambridge University Press)

• 1986     Fred L. Whipple, The Mystery of Comets (Smithsonian Institution Press)
   
• 1985     Norma E. Emerton, The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form (Cornell University
                Press)

• 1984     George Greenstein, Frozen Star:  Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars 
                (Freundlich Books)

• 1983     Stephen Jay Gould, Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes:  Further Reflections in 
                Natural History (Norton)

• 1982     Sir Bernard Lovell, Emerging Cosmology (Columbia University Press)
   
• 1981     Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Dawn:  The Origins of Matter and Life (Atlantic-Little, 
                Brown)

• 1980     David A. Park, The Image of Eternity:  Roots of Time in the Physical World
                (University of Massachusetts Press)

• 1979     John Imbrie and Katherine Palmer Imbrie, Ice Ages:  Solving the Mystery
                (Enslow Publishers)

• 1978     Colin Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind (Cambridge University Press)
   
• 1977     Gerard K. O’Neill, The High Frontier:  Human Colonies in Space 
                (William Morrow)

• 1976     William W. Warner, Beautiful Swimmers:  Watermen, Crabs and the 
                Chesapeake Bay (Atlantic-Little, Brown)

• 1975     Guido Majno, The Healing Hand:  Man and Wound in the Ancient World 
                (Harvard University Press)

• 1974     Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett, Darwin on Man (Harvard University
                Press)

• 1973     Herman H. Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann 
                (Princeton University Press)

• 1972     Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle:  Nature, Man and Technology (Knopf)
   
• 1971     Linus Pauling, Vitamin C and the Common Cold (W. H. Freeman)
   
• 1970     John and Mildred Teal, The Life and Death of a Salt Marsh
                (Atlantic-Little, Brown)

• 1969     G. J. V. Nossal, Antibodies and Immunity (Basic Books)
   
• 1968     Sir Alister Hardy, Great Waters ( Harper & Row)
   
• 1967     Haig P. Papazian, Modern Genetics (W. W. Norton)
   
• 1966     Rene Dubos, Man Adapting (Yale University Press)
   
• 1965     Donald R. Griffin, Bird Migration (Anchor Science Study Series, Doubleday)
   
• 1964     Verne Grant, The Origin of Adaptations (Columbia University Press)
   
• 1963     Rene Dubos, The Unseen World (The Rockefeller Institute Press in 
                association with the Oxford University Press)

• 1962     James L. Dyson, The World of Ice (Knopf)
   
• 1961     Martin Lindauer, Communication Among Social Bees (Harvard University Press)