Lewis Thomas Prize
The Lewis Thomas Prize of Rockefeller University was donated in memory of Lewis Thomas , who died in 1993 , and has been awarded annually since 1994 to scientists for the literary quality of popular scientific works. It is endowed with $ 5,000 and the winner will give a lecture at the university the following year.
Award winners
- 1994 François Jacob
- 1995 Abraham Pais
- 1996 Freeman Dyson
- 1997 Max Perutz
- 1998 Ernst Mayr
- 1999 Steven Weinberg
- 2000 Edward O. Wilson
- 2001 Oliver Sacks
- 2002 Jared Diamond
- 2003 Richard Fortey
- 2004 Jean-Pierre Changeux
- 2005 Thomas Eisner
- 2006 Richard Dawkins
- 2007 James D. Watson
- 2008 Robert Sapolsky
- 2009 Martin Rees
- 2010, 2011?
- 2012 Kay Redfield Jamison
- 2013 Frances Ashcroft
- 2014 Atul Gawande
- 2015 Steven Strogatz , Ian Stewart
- 2016 Sean B. Carroll
- 2017 Sylvia Earle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 for The spark of life , biography of Ashcroft with his agent ( memento of the original from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
