• 2012: - Anna Rothschild for Nova, "The Amazing Atomic Clock"

• 2020: Susan Hockfield for The Age of Living Machines (W.W. Norton & Company).^[2]
• 2019: Marcia Bartusiak for Dispatches from Planet 3 (Yale University Press).^[3]
• 2019: David Hu for How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls (Yale University Press).^[4]
• 2018: David Baron for American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World (Liveright Publishing Corporation/W. W. Norton & Company).^[5]
• 2017: Timothy Jorgensen for Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation (Princeton University Press).^[6]
• 2016: Chris Woodford for Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home (Bloomsbury).^[7]
• 2015: Charles Adler for Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction (Princeton University Press).^[8]
• 2014: Lee Billings for Five Billion Years of Solitude: the Search for Life Among the Stars (Current/Penguin).^[9]

• 2011: George Musser for Scientific American magazine,"Could Time End?"
• 2010: Tom Zoellner for Penguin Group, "Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World"
• 2008: Ann Finkbeiner for Viking/Penguin,"The Jasons"
• 2007: Tim Folger, Discover Magazine,"If an Electron can be in Two Places at Once, Why Can't You?"
• 2006: Barbara Goldsmith for WW Norton and Atlas Books, "Obsessive Genius"
• 2005: Michael Moyer for Popular Science, "Journey to the 10th Dimension"
• 2004: J. Madeleine Nash for Warner Books, El Niño: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker^[10]
• 2003: Diane Tennant for The Virginian-Pilot,"A Cosmic Tale"^[11]
• 2002: No award given
• 2001: Marcia Bartusiak for Joseph Henry Press, Einstein's Unfinished Symphony^[12][13]
• 2000: Ron Cowen for USA Today, "Quantum Leap in Research Draws Cosmic Insight Closer"; Science News "Travelin' Light"; The Washington Post "Now Hear This!"
• 1999: Michael Lemonick, Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe, Simon & Schuster
• 1998: Robyn Suriano and Todd Halvorson for Florida Today, "Cassini: Debating the Risks"
• 1997: Hazel Muir for New Scientist Magazine "Watch Out, Here Comes the Sun" and "A Fast Rain's Going to Fall"
• 1996: K.C. Cole for The Los Angeles Times,(3 newspaper articles)
• 1995: Gary Taubes for Discover Magazine, "Welcome to Femtoland"
• 1994: Dick Teresi for Omni Magazine, "The Last Great Experiment of the 20th Century"
• 1993: Billy Goodman for Air & Space Magazine, "The Planet Hunters"
• 1992: Dennis Overbye for Harper Collins Publishers, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
• 1991: Charles Petit for Mosaic Magazine, "Vanishingly Close to Absolute Zero"
• 1990: Jerry E. Bishop for The Wall Street Journal, "Cold Fusion"
• 1989: Timothy Ferris for William & Morrow Inc, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
• 1988: Richard Preston for The Atlantic Monthly Press, First Light
• 1987: Shannon Brownlee and Allan Chen for Discover Magazine, "Waiting for the Big One"
• 1986: Arthur Fisher for Mosaic, "Chaos: The Ultimate Asymmetry"
• 1985: Ben Patrusky for World Book Yearbook, "The Wandering Continents"
• 1984: John Tierney for Discover Magazine,"Perpetual Commotion"
• 1983: Martin Gardner for Discover Magazine, "Quantum Weirdness"
• 1982: Marcia Bartusiak for Discover Magazine, "The Ultimate Timepiece"
• 1981: Leo Janus for Science 80 Magazine,"Timekeepers of the Solar System"
• 1980: Dennis Overbye for Omni Magazine, "The Wizard of Time and Space"
• 1979: Robert C. Cowen for The Christian Science Monitor, "The New Astronomy"
• 1978: Timothy Ferris for The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
• 1977: William D. Metz for Science Magazine, "Fusion Research"
• 1976: Frederic Golden for Time Magazine, "Forecast: Earthquake"
• 1975: Tom Alexander for Fortune Magazine, "Ominous Changes in the World's Weather"
• 1974: Patrick Young for The National Observer, "A Quake Is Due at..."
• 1973: Edward Edelson for The New York News, "The Mystery of Space"
• 1972: Jerry E. Bishop for The Wall Street Journal, "Celestial Clue"
• 1971: Kenneth Weaver for National Geographic, "Voyage to the Planets"
• 1970: C.P. Gilmore for Popular Science, "Can We Stop Earthquakes from Happening"
• 1969: Walter S. Sullivan for The New York Times, "Flight of Apollo 8"
• 1968: William J. Perkinson for The Baltimore Sun, "ABM Primer: Physics for Defense"

2011: Dan Falk Scientific magazine Could Time End?

2009 - Dan Falk COSMOS magazine End of Days: A Universe in Ruins

2008 - Gino Segre Viking/Penguin Faust in Copenhagen

2007 - James Trefil Astronomy magazine Where is the Universe Heading?

2006: Simon Singh Harper Collins Big Bang

2005: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Natural History Magazine In the Beginning

2004: Len Fisher Arcade Publishing, Inc. How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life www.lenfisher.co.uk^[10]

2003: Ray Jayawardhana Astronomy Magazine Beyond Black

2002: Lawrence Krauss Little, Brown & Co Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

Honorable Mention: Ken Croswell The Free Press The Universe at Midnight

2001: Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion Joseph Henry Press One Universe^[12]

2000: Charles H. Townes Oxford University Press How the Laser Happened

1999: John Wheeler and Kenneth Ford, W.W. Norton, Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam

1998: Leonard Susskind, Scientific American, Black Holes and the Information Paradox

1997: Award postponed until 1998

1996: Mitchell Begelman & Martin Rees W.H. Freeman & Co. Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe

1995: Eric Chaisson HarperCollins Publishing The Hubble Wars

1994: Kip S. Thorne W.W. Norton & Company Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

1993: Hans C. von Baeyer Random House Taming the Atom

1992: David C. Cassidy W.H. Freeman & Co. Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg

1991: Harold Lewis W.W. Norton & Co. Technological Risk

1990: Bruce Murray W.W. Norton & Co. Journey Into Space

1989: Mark Littmann John Wiley & Sons Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System

1988: Michael Riordan Simon & Schuster The Hunting of the Quark

1987: Clifford Martin Will Basic Books Was Einstein Right?

1986: Donald Goldsmith Walker and Company Nemesis: The Death Star

1985: Edwin C. Krupp Macmillan Publishing Company The Comet and You

1984: George Greenstein Freundlich Books Frozen Star

1983: Abraham Pais Oxford University Press Subtle is the Lord...The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

1982: Heinz Pagels Simon & Schuster The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

1981: Eric Chaisson Little, Brown & Company Cosmic Dawn

1980: William J. Kaufmann, III [it], W.H. Freeman & Company Black Holes and Warped Spacetime

1979: Hans C. von Baeyer Alumni Gazette, College of William & Mary The Wonder of Gravity

1978: Edwin C. Krupp Doubleday & Company In Search of Ancient Astronomies

1977: Steven Weinberg Basic Books, Inc. The First Three Minutes

1976: Jeremy Bernstein The New Yorker Physicist: I.I. Rabi

1975: Robert H. March Science Year The Quandary Over Quarks

1974: Robert D. Chapman NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 'Comet Kohoutek

1973: Banesh Hoffmann Viking Press Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel

1972: Dietrich Schroeer Addison-Wesley Physics & Its Fifth Dimension: Society

1971: Robert H. March MacGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. Physics for Poets

1970: Jeremy Bernstein (written for) Atomic Energy Commission The Elusive Neutrino

1969: Kip S. Thorne Science Year The Death of a Star

2011: Vicki Wittenstein Boyds Mills Press "Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths"

2010: Gillian Richardson Annick Press Ltd. "Kaboom! Explosions of All Kinds"

2009: Cora Lee and Gillian O'Reilly Annick Press "The Great Number Rumble: A story of Math in Surprising Places"

2008: Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel Charlesbridge "SNEEZE!

2007: Jacob Berkowitz Kids Can Press "Jurassic Poop"

2006: David Garrison, Shannon Hunt and Jude Isabella Kids Can Press "Fantastic Feats and Failures"

2005: Bea Uusma Schyffert Chronicle Books "The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon"

2004: Marianne Dyson National Geographic "Home on the Moon: Living in the Space Frontier"^[14]

2003: Ron Miller Twenty-First Century Books, a Division of The Millbrook Press Worlds Beyond Series: Extrasolar Planets, The Sun, Jupiter, and Venus

2002: Fred Bortz The Millbrook Press Techno-Matter: The Materials Behind the Marvels

2001: Cynthia Pratt Nicolson Kids Can Press Exploring Space^[12]

2000: Jill Frankel Hauser Williamson Publishing Science Play! Gizmos & Gadgets

1999: Elaine Scott Hyperion Books for Children Close Encounters

1998: Barbara Taylor Henry Holt and Company Earth Explained

1997: Donald Silver Silver Burdett Press Extinction is Forever

1996: Steve Tomecek W.H. Freeman and Company Bouncing & Bending Light

1995: Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy Crown Publishers, Inc. The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space

1994: Wendy Baker, Andrew Haslam, and Alexandra Parsons Macmillan Make it Work!

1993: Gail Gibbons Holiday House Stargazers

1992: Gloria Skurzynski Bradbury Press Almost The Real Thing

1991: Richard Maurer Simon & Schuster Inc. Airborne

1990: David Macaulay Houghton Mifflin Company The Way Things Work

1989: Gail Kay Haines Putnam & Grosset Micromysteries

1988: Susan Kovacs Buxbaum, Rita Golden Graham, and Maryann Cocca-Leffler Basic Books Splash! All About Baths

2009: Tom Shachtman and David Dugan Windfall Films in collaboration with Meridian Productions and broadcast on WGBH/NOVA in association with TPT/Twin Cities Public Television "Absolute Zero"

2008: Julia Cort WGBH/NOVA scienceNOW "Asteroid"

2007: Jim Handman, Pat Senson, and Bob McDonald CBC Radio "Multiple Worlds, Parallel Universes"

2006: David Kestenbaum National Public Radio "Einstein's Miraculous Year: How Smart was Einstein?"

2005: Jon Palfreman WNET New York "Innovation: Light Speed"

2004: William S. Hammack "Public Radio Pieces" WILL-AM Radio 2003: Jim Handman, Pat Senson, and Bob McDonald CBC Radio "It's About Time"

2002: David Kestenbaum National Public Radio "Measuring Muons" (RealMedia file)

2001: Jon Palfreman WGBH- Frontline/NOVA "What's Up with the Weather?"^[12]

2000: Craig Heaps KTVU- TV Time & Space Space Weather

1999: Dan Falk CBC Radio From Empedocles to Einstein

1998: Sandy Rathbun and Dave Greenleaf KVOA-TV Asteroid: The Real Story

• Science Communication Awards at AIP