Honor roll: National Book Award for Science authors
Each of these authors has been nominated for a National Book Award for Science. They are ranked by honors given those books nominated for the aforementioned award.
| 1 | Lewis Thomas (30.56) | 6 | Fred A. Wolf (10.32) | 11 | Silvano Arieti (10.25) |
| 2 | Douglas R. Hofstadter (20.3) | 7 | Donald Johanson (10.32) | 12 | S.E. Luria (10.24) |
| 3 | Phillip J. Davis (10.33) | 8 | Maitland Edey (10.32) | 13 | George B. Schaller (10.23) |
| 4 | Abraham Pais (10.33) | 9 | Stephen Jay Gould (10.31) | 14 | George L. Small (10.22) |
| 5 | Reuben Hersh (10.33) | 10 | Gary Zukav (10.3) | 15 | Raymond Phineas Stearns (10.21) |
