The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth. Click Association of American Publishers for more information about the sponsors of this award.
Prize awarded to books about physics and astronomy and cosmology.
2023 Cosmology by Daniel Baumann
2022 No award
2021 A philosophical approach to MOND : assessing the Milgromian Research Program in cosmology by David Merritt
2020 Chemical, gas, and biosensors for internet of things and related applications, edited by Kohji Mitsubayashi, Osamu Niwa and Yuko Ueno; The atlas of Mars : mapping its geography and geology by Kenneth S. Coles, Kenneth L. Tanaka, Philip R. Christensen
2019 Astrobiology, discovery, and societal impact by Steven J. Dick
2018 Bayesian models for astrophysical data using R, JAGS, Python, and Stan by Joseph M. Hilbe, Rafael S. de Souza, and Emille E. O. Ishida
2017 The cosmic web : mysterious architecture of the universe by J. Richard Gott; Mapping the heavens : the radical scientific ideas that reveal the cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan (honorable mention); Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott (honorable mention)
2015 Encyclopedia of the solar system, edited by Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer and Torrence Johnson
2013 In search of the true universe : the tools, shaping, and cost of cosmological thought by Martin Harwit; Heart of darkness : unraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton (honorable mention)
2012 Modern statistical methods for astronomy, with R applications by Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu
2011 The exoplanet handbook by M. A. C. Perryman; How old is the universe? by David A. Weintraub (honorable mention)
2010 Galaxy formation and evolution by Houjun Mo, Frank Van Den Bosch, & Simon White; The 50 most extreme places in our solar system by David Baker & Todd Ratcliff (honorable mention)
2009 High-energy astrophysics, edited by Fulvio Melia
2008 The solar system beyond Neptune by M. A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. P. Cruikshank & A. Morbidelli; Solar sails : a novel approach to interplanetary travel by Giovanni Vulpetti, Les Johnson & Gregory L. Matloff (honorable mention)
2007 The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began by Stuart Clark
2004 Uncorked : the science of champagne by Gérard Liger Belair
2002 The extravagant universe : exploding stars, dark energy, and the accelerating cosmos by Robert Kirshner
2001 Extreme stars : at the edge of creation by James B. Kaler
2000 The end of time : the next revolution in physics by Julian Barbour; The accelerating universe : infinite expansion, the cosmological constant, and the beauty of the cosmos by Mario Livio (honorable mention)
1999 Active galactic nuclei : from the central black hole to the galactic environment by Julian H. Krolik
1998 New perspectives on the earth's magnetotail, edited by A. Nishida, D. N. Baker, S. W. H. Cowley
1997 Encyclopedia of acoustics, Malcolm J. Crocker, editor-in-chief
1996 Stars as laboratories for fundamental physics : the astrophysics of neutrinos, axions, and other weakly interacting particles by Georg G. Raffelt
1995 Gravitation and inertia by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Archibald Wheeler
1994 Planets, stars, and orbs : the medieval cosmos, 1200-1687 by Edward Grant
1993 Air and water : the biology and physics of life's media by Mark W. Denny
1992 New astronomy by Johannes Kepler ; translated and edited by William H. Donahue