2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
Diana Preston
Spanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it.And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists …
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Shortlist
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
Brad Matsen
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
Sean B. Carroll
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Mariana Gosnell
