{"id":3440,"date":"2009-02-24T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/24\/award-winning-science-writing\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:48:03","slug":"award-winning-science-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/24\/award-winning-science-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Science Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of the American Physical Society&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/press_release\/09writingawards.html\">Science Writing Awards for 2008<\/a> were announced today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/annfinkbeiner.com\/\">Ann Finkbeiner<\/a> won in the Journalist category for <cite>The Jasons<\/cite>, her book about a secretive groups of scientists who work on classified problems for the US government.<\/li>\n<li>Gino Segre won in the Scientist category, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/segre07\/segre07_index.html\"><cite>Faust in Copenhagen<\/cite><\/a>, about the early days of quantum mechanics.<\/li>\n<li>Julia Cort won in the Broadcast category for the <cite>NOVA ScienceNow<\/cite> episode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/sciencenow\/3313\/01.html\">Asteroid<\/a>, about whether a giant asteroid will kill us all in 2036.<\/li>\n<li>Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel have won in the Children&#8217;s category, for their book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesbridge.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=4651\"><cite>Sneeze!<\/cite><\/a> which combines photographs and prose about, well, sneezing, with electron micrographs of things that make us sneeze.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all the winners.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The fact that I wasn&#8217;t really aware of the existence of an APS Science Writing Award says something about the quality of the APS&#8217;s publicity regarding these awards. But, hey, now I have something to put in the &#8220;Awards this book may be eligible for&#8221; blank on the author publicity questionnaire I&#8217;m (slowly) filling out for my publisher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners of the American Physical Society&#8217;s Science Writing Awards for 2008 were announced today: Ann Finkbeiner won in the Journalist category for The Jasons, her book about a secretive groups of scientists who work on classified problems for the US government. Gino Segre won in the Scientist category, for Faust in Copenhagen, about the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/24\/award-winning-science-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Award-Winning Science Writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,130,7,51,37,11,52,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-journalism","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}