Aventis prizes for science books 2005
May 2005
Outsider scoops Aventis prize
This year's Aventis Prizes for Science Books general prize has gone to an outsider. Favourite Robert Winston was pipped at the post by journalist Philip Ball, whose book, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, was given odds of 8/1 - the longest on the shortlist - by bookmakers William Hill.