Annal:2000 Aventis Prize for General Science Book
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Results of the Aventis Prize in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Aventis Prize for General Science Book
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Science/Technology books
- Science/Technology authors.
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- 2000 Aventis-General winner
- 2000 Pulitzer–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 16.5
String theory, many physicists believe, is the key to the unified field theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. At last, science has found a way to overcome the nearly century-old rift between the laws of the large - general relativity - and the laws of the small - quantum mechanics. String theory deftly unites these two pillars of modern physics into a single, harmonious whole by declaring that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe arise from the vibrations of one single entity: microscopically tiny loops of energy that lie deep within…
