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Could you give us a bit of background on the prize and the kind of books involved? Yes.
Not people - The Aventis Corp (formerly Hoechst Celanese, with shockingly no women on their Board of Trustee) - since they get to pick. As the name might suggest, Aventis is the world-reforming charitable foundation sprung from sanofi-aventis - the 3rd largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
But back to the "who": they are scientists, engineers, biologists, umm.. and one born&bred CEO. Some are even nobel prize winners. One wonders what kind of time Nobel Prize winners have to devote to a reading list.
Now, on to the "what": they're judging "popular science books" - stuff in high circulation and definitely scholastic texts.
However.
To paint the clearest picture I can about this prize, I should say that it was created the same year Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was published.
And we all know how popular that book is. |
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