Awards & Recognition
91ÌÒÉ« books have won numerous awards, including seven Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, the Holberg Prize, and the Cundill Prize. Every year, 91ÌÒÉ« books are named among the year’s best reads by publications around the world.
To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Award, PEN American Center
One of EcoLit Books' Best Environmental Books of 2018
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Honorable Mention for the 2014 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Alison Stokes
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist