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.
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Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Finalist for the PROSE Award in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology, Association of American Publishers

Winner of the Basic Sciences Book Award, International Academy of Astronautics

Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers

Frans Pretorius, Winner of the 2017 New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics

Winner of the 2017 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of Physics
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Best Science Books of 2016
#6 on The Telegraph’s Top 50 Books of the Year 2016
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year, 2016
Shortlisted for Physics World's Book of the Year 2016