2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner
![Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580872267-765-image-3.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581027568-6112-image-3.jpg)
Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
Brad Matsen
![Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581023135-5746-image-3.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581009108-4591-image-3.jpg)
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Mariana Gosnell
![The Republican War on Science](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966214-2513-image-3.jpg)