THOUSANDS of pounds winged their way this week to the two winners of the Rhône-Poulenc prizes for science books. The seventh winner of the general prize is John Emsley, who is science writer-in-residence at Imperial College, London. He collected £10 000 for his survey of common chemicals, entitled The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide.
Graphic designer Jay Young’s The Most Amazing Pop-Up Science Book (in association with the Science Museum) takes the junior prize with a book of working paper models, including a periscope, a compass and a record player that repeats Edison’s first experimental recording of Mary had a little lamb.
