Volume 48 Issue 04 May 2015
Awards and Recognition

The Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science

Since 1993, Rockefeller University has conferred the Lewis Thomas Prize each year on “the rare individual” who succeeds in bridging the worlds of writers and scientists. Ian Stewart of Warwick University, in the UK, and Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, the first mathematicians to receive the prize, are well known to the SIAM community, both for their research and for their general-audience books, articles, and broadcasts. Both have made conveying the nature, interest, and uses of mathematics an integral part of their careers.

All photos by Scott Rudd.

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Alan Alda, Rockefeller University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ian Stewart, and Steven Strogatz at Rockefeller’s March 30 reception for the prize recipients.
Ian Stewart, Avril Stewart, and Barbara Keyfitz. In 1999, Stewart received the JPBM Communications Award “for communicating the excitement of science and mathematics to millions of people around the world for more than twenty years.” Strogatz received the award in 2007.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Steve Strogatz, who precedes Manil Suri as a New York Times columnist and also appears frequently in Radiolab shows.