Le prix des sciences Phi Beta Kappa est décerné chaque année par la Phi Beta Kappa aux auteurs de livres d'importance traitant des domaines des sciences et des mathématiques. La notoriété de la fraternité (17 présidents des États-Unis et plus de 150 prix Nobel parmi ses membres) ainsi que celles de certains de ses lauréats participent à faire du prix Phi Beta Kappa une récompense plus que notable dans le monde académique.
Lauréats
AnnéeOuvrageAuteurSujet1959Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered ItBiologie1960The Forest and the SeaEcologie1961Communication Among Social BeesBiologie1962The World of IceClimatologie1963The Unseen WorldBiologie1964The Origin of AdaptationsBiologie1965Bird MigrationBiologie1966Man AdaptingMedicine1967Modern GeneticsBiologie1968Great waters: A Voyage of Natural History to Study Whales, Plankton, and the Waters of the Southern OceanBiologie1969Antibodies and ImmunityMedicine1970The Life and Death of a Salt MarshEcologie1971Vitamin C and the Common ColdMedicine1972The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and TechnologySociologie1973The Computer from Pascal to von NeumannMathématiques1974Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity, Paul H. BarrettBiologie1975The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient WorldMedicine1976Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake BayBiologie1977The High Frontier: Human Colonies in SpaceColonisation de l'espace1978Mechanics of the MindMedicine1979Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery and Katherine Palmer ImbrieClimatologie1980The Image of Eternity: Roots of Time in the Physical WorldPhysique1981Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and LifeCosmologie1982Emerging Cosmology: ConvergenceCosmologie1983Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural HistoryBiologie1984Frozen Star: Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of StarsAstronomie1985The Scientific Reinterpretation of FormScience1986The Mystery of CometsAstronomie1987Chemicals and Society: A Guide to the New Chemical AgeChimie1988Infinite in All DirectionsCosmologie1989The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical TheoryPhysique1990Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryBiologie1991Envisioning InformationStatistiques1992One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary ThoughtBiologie1993Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population TaboosEcologie1994Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous LegacyPhysique1995Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, Bert HölldoblerBiologie1996Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange, But Not as Strange as You ThinkPhysique1997Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesSociologie1998Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx & The Evolution of Bird FlightPaleontologie1999The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate TheoryCosmologie2000Cradle of Life: The Discovery of the Earth's Earliest FossilsPaleontologie2001The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our FutureClimatologie2002A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate ChangeClimatologie2003Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on EarthBiologie2004Isaac NewtonPhysique2005The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes and HumansBiologie2006Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of ClimateClimatologie2007The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of EvolutionBiologie2008Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyBiologie2009The Art and Politics of ScienceHistoire des sciences2010Complexity: A Guided TourComplexity2011Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st CenturyRéchauffement climatique2012The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George DentonRéchauffement climatique2013The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail—but Some Don'tStatistiques2014Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant SwabianA. Douglas StonePhysique quantique2015Animal Weapons: The Evolution of BattleBiologie2016The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human HistoryThor HansenBiologie2017The Gene: An intimate historySiddhartha MukherjeeBiologie2018Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert SapolskyBiologie2019Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the EarthAdam FrankAstrobiologie2020Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our PastSarah ParcakArchéologie2021The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another WorldSarah Stewart JohnsonAstrobiologie2022Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and LiteratureFarah Jasmine Griffin
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Catégorie:Prix scientifique aux États-Unis Catégorie:Distinction fondée en 1959