The 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award winner

The winner of the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is The Arts and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus, published by W.W. Norton & Company.

Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science — List of Previous Winners

• 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)
   
• 1960     Marston Bates, The Forest and the Sea (Random House)
   
• 1959     Loren Eisley, Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It
                (Doubleday)