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Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2000

Nature volume 405, page 513 (2000) Cite this article

The Elegant Universe by heretical theorist Brian Greene (Vintage, £7.99, $15, pbk) has won this year's Aventis Prizes General Prize — often called the scientific community's Booker Prize. The prizes were set up in 1988 by the Science Museum and COPUS, the Committee On the Public Understanding of Science, to encourage the writing, publishing and sale of popular science books for non-specialist readers. This year's general prize, worth £10,000 ($15,000), attracted a record 117 entries. Other books on the shortlist are shown below. (See overleaf for coverage of the junior prize.)

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis by Thomas Dormandy Hambledon/New York University Press, £25, $29.95

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