Royal Society Science Book Prize

The Royal Society Science Book Prize celebrates the best popular science writing for general readers. The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences, created the prize in 1988 to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of accessible science books, and winners have included Stephen Hawking and Bill Bryson. The prize has carried several sponsors' names over the years and is currently the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

A panel of scientists, authors, journalists and broadcasters chooses a shortlist of six books and names the winner at an autumn ceremony. The winning author receives £25,000 and each shortlisted author £2,500. Publishers may enter any book on popular science or technology, including biographies of scientists and histories of science, and there are no limits on the author's nationality or the publisher's location.

Popular science and technology books written for a general audience and first published in English during the prize's eligibility window, entered by their publishers; authors of any nationality are eligible.