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The Aventis Prizes For Science BooksThe Aventis Prizes for Science Books is an annual award for the previous year's best general science writing and best science writing for children. The nominees and winners are decided by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science. The prizes were established in 1988. It is generally considered to be the most prestigious science writing award, and is sometimes referred to as the Booker Prize of science writing. It was formerly known as the Rhne-Poulenc Prizes. 2005 Prizes The winners will be announced on 2005-05-12. The longlist of candidates for the General prize was released 2005-03-10, see http://books.guardian.co.uk/aventis2005/0,15827,1430732,00.html. General Prize This category is awarded to the best science writing for a non-specialist audience. 2004 Winner The winner was announced on June 14 2004: The other nominees for 2004 were: 2003 Winner Other nominees: 2002 Winner Other nominees: 2001 Winner 2000 Winner Other nominees: Pre-2000 Winners - (1999) The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman
- (1998) Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
- (1997) The Wisdom of Bones, Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
- (1996) Plague’s Progress, Arno Karlen
- (1995) The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide, John Emsley
- (1994) The Language of the Genes, Steve Jones
- (1993) The Making of Memory, Steven Rose
- (1992) The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond
- (1991) Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould
- (1990) The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose
- (1989) Bones of Contention, Roger Lewin
- (1988) Living with Risk, British Medical Association Board of Science
Junior Prize This category is awarded to the best science writing for children. 2004 Winner Other nominees: 2003 Winner Other nominees: 2002 Winner Other nominees: 2001 Winner 2000 Winner Pre-2000 Winners - (1999) The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope, Kirsteen Rogers
- (1998) The Kingfisher Book of Oceans, David Lambert
- (1997) , Nick Arnold
- (1996) The World of Weather, Chris Maynard
- (1995) The Most Amazing Pop-Up Science Book, Jay Young
- (1994)
- (1993) Mighty Microbes, Thompson Yardley
- (1992) The Amazing Voyage of the Cucumber Sandwich, Peter Rowan
- (1991) Cells Are Us and Cell Wars, Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph
- (1990)
- (1989) The Way Things Work, David Macaulay and Neil Ardley
- (1988) Science Alive Living Things, Roger Kerrod
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