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Sep 26, 2015

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

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.