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| width=75 | '''2011''' || [[Rebecca Skloot]] || ''[[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]''
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| width=75 | '''2009''' || [[Neil Shubin]] || ''[[Your Inner Fish]]''<ref name=2009winners>{{cite web|title=2009 Winners and Finalists|url=http://www.keckfutures.org/awards/2009winners.html|work=National Academies Communication Awards|publisher=Keck Futures Initiative|accessdate=25 February 2013}}</ref>
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|width=75|'''2010'''||Carole and Richard Rifkind||[[WNET]]||''[[Naturally Obsessed|Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist]]''<ref name=2010winners/>
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|width=75|'''2009'''||Larry Adelman, Llewellyn M. Smith, and Christine Herbes-Sommers||[[California Newsreel]] and Vital Pictures||''[[Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?]]''<ref name=2009winners/>
|width=75|'''2009'''||Larry Adelman, Llewellyn M. Smith, and Christine Herbes-Sommers||[[California Newsreel]] and Vital Pictures||''[[Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?]]''<ref name=2009winners/>
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Revision as of 00:29, 25 February 2013

The National Academies Communication Award is an annual prize bestowed in recognition of creative works that help the public understand topics in science, engineering or medicine. The awards were established in 2003 and are administered by the Keck Futures Initiative, a project of the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine that is funded by the W.M. Keck Foundation. A $20,000 prize is awarded in each of four categories: Book, Film/Radio/TV, Magazine/Newspaper, and Online. The Online category was created in 2009.

List of recipients

Book

2012 Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow
2011 Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2010 Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder[1]
2009 Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish[2]
2008 Walter Isaacson Einstein: His Life and Universe[3]
2007 Eric Kandel In Search of Memory[4]
2006 Charles C. Mann 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus[5]
2005 John M. Barry The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History[6]
2004 Matt Ridley The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture[7]
2003 Carl Safina Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival[8]

Film/Radio/TV

2010 Carole and Richard Rifkind WNET Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist[1]
2009 Larry Adelman, Llewellyn M. Smith, and Christine Herbes-Sommers California Newsreel and Vital Pictures Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?[2]
2008 George Butler White Mountain Films, Kennedy-Marshall Films and The Walt Disney Company Roving Mars[3]
2007 Jad Abumrad WNYC Radiolab "Musical Language" and "Where am I?"[4]
2006 Nick Young, Anna Thomson, and Bill Locke The History Channel and Lion Television "Ape to Man"[5]
2005 Thomas Levenson and Paula Apsell WGBH-TV NOVA “Origins: Back to the Beginning.”[6]
2004 Sue Norton and David Clark The Science Channel "Science of the Deep: Mid-Water Mysteries."[7]
2003 Joe Palca National Public Radio "series of news stories for radio about the scientific and human dimensions of cloning."[8]

Magazine/Newspaper

2010 Charles Duhigg The New York Times "Toxic Waters"[1]
2009 Mark Johnson Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Targeting the Good Cell"[2]
2008 Bob Marshall, Mark Schleifstein, Dan Swenson, and Ted Jackson The Times-Picayune "Last Chance: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast", "an outstanding newspaper series that combines superb storytelling with the latest science in its call to action to save Louisiana's wetlands"[3]
2007 Carl Zimmer freelance writer "for his diverse and consistently interesting coverage of evolution and unexpected biology"[4]
2006 Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker "The Climate of Man"[5]
2005 Gareth Cook The Boston Globe “The Stem Cell Debate.”[6]
2004 Richard Lee Hotz The Los Angeles Times "Butterfly on a Bullet"[7]
2003 Andrew Revkin The New York Times "series of articles on the complex science and policy issues of global climate change"[8]

Online

2010 Ed Yong discovermagazine.com "Not Exactly Rocket Science" blog[1]
2009 Vikki Valentine, Alison Richards, and Anne Gudenkauf NPR News for Climate Connections, a yearlong multimedia journey to explain the impacts of global climate change with well-reported stories from around the world[2]
2008 Alan Boyle MSNBC.com " for selected works from Cosmic Log and his pioneering efforts to bring daily coverage of the physical sciences, technological innovation and space sciences to broad new audiences on a popular news web site"[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "2010 Winners and Finalists". Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d "2009 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "2008 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "2007 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "2006 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  6. ^ a b c "2005 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  7. ^ a b c "2004 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  8. ^ a b c "2003 Winners and Finalists". National Academies Communication Awards. Keck Futures Initiative. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
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