Sep 26, 2015

Gaia Vince becomes the first woman to win the Top science book prize

9/26/2015
The most prestigious science book prize in Britain has been won by a solo female writer Gaia Vince for the first time in its 28-year history. Gaia Vince, a journalist and broadcaster based in London, was named the winner of the 2015 Royal Society Winton prize for Science Books at a ceremony in London.

Gaia Vince

  • Vince quit her job as an editor at the journal, Nature, to spend more than two years travelling the world to research her book, Adventures in the Anthropocene: a Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made.
  • Vince sought out people and places most disrupted by humanity’s plundering of Earth’s resources.
  • She visited slums in Colombia, and clambered down a silver mine in Bolivia.
  • Vince becomes the first woman as sole author to win the Royal Society book prize, worth £25,000 this year.
  • The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Vince’s partner, Nick Pattinson, who captured remarkable shots.
  • In 1997, the award was given to Alan Walker and Pat Shipman, who co-wrote The Wisdom of Bones.
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