BOOK AWARDS
Aventis Science Prize 2004
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The Aventis Prizes for Science Books are an annual book prize, which celebrate the very best in popular science writing for adults and children; they have become become one of the UK’s most prestigious non-fiction literary prizes. The Prizes are owned by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, who manged the Prizes with the generous support of the Aventis Foundation.
There are two categories: The Junior Prize, which is given to the best book written for under-14s, and the General Prize, for the best book written for a more general readership. Each prize is worth £10,000 to the winning author and £1,000 to each of the shortlisted authors.
The General Prize is chosen by a panel of five judges who select approximately six shortlisted books and subsequently a winner. For the Junior Prize, initially a panel of five adult judges chooses the shortlist of six books. The task of picking the winner is then handed over to the people who should know best — young people aged up to fourteen.
Winner (announced 14th June 2004)
The winner has been announced as:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and published by Doubleday (0385408188)
Shortlist (announced May)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| In The Beginning Was The Worm | Andrew Brown | Simon & Schuster | 0743207165 |
| A Short History Of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | Doubleday | 0385408188 |
| Magic Universe | Nigel Calder | Oxford University Press | 0198507925 |
| Mutants | Armand Marie Leroi | Harpercollins | 0002571137 |
| Corpus | Michael Symmons | Jonathan Cape | 0224073427 |
| Nature Via Nurture | Matt Ridley | Fourth Estate | 1841157457 |
| Backroom Boys | Francis Spufford | Faber & Faber | 0571214967 |
Winners 2003
General:
Right Hand, Left Hand: The origins of Asymmetry in brains, Bodies, Atoms & Cultures by Chris McManus (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
