The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books Reveals Shortlist

‘The best science writers can move and thrill us just as much as Austen or Dickens’, said judge Sarah Waters when announcing the shortlist

The Royal Society’s prize ‘celebrates accessibility as well as expertise’, said novelist and judge Sarah Waters. Composite: the Guardian

Tim Radford

Wednesday 5 August 2015  The Guardian

Worried about your maths skills? Obsessed by the Higgs boson? Or the genetic code? Or anxious about your feeble grasp on the role of quantum physics in biology? Or what humans are doing to the planet? Or are you just worried to distraction full stop? Like science itself, all six shortlisted books in the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books are chronicles of the hunt for answers.

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