Table 2
| Year | References |
|---|
| 1968 | James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account
of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
| 1981 | Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine |
| | Nicholas Wade, The Nobel Duel: Two Scientists' 21-Year Race
to Win the World's Most Coveted Research Prize |
| 1985 | David H. Clark, The Quest for SS433 |
| 1986 | Robert Kanigel, Apprentice to Genius: The Making of
a Scientific Dynasty |
| | David M. Raup, The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death
of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science |
| | David Taubes, Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment |
| 1987 | Stephen S. Hall, Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene |
| | Roger Lewin, Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins |
| | Ed Ergis, Who Got Einstein's Office: Eccentricity and Genius at the
the Institute for Advanced Study |
| 1988 | Natalie Angier, Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene |
| | Sheldon Glashow (with Ben Bova), Interactions: A Journey Through
the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World |
| | Jeff Goldberg, Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery |
| | Robert M. Hazen, The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor |
| | Charles E. Levinthal, Messengers of Paradise: Opiates and the Brian |
| | Bruce Schechter, The Path of No Resistance: The Story of the
Revolution in Superconductivity |
| 1989 | Solomon H. Snyder, Brainstorming: The Science and Politics of
Opiate Research |
| | Robert Teitelman, Gene Dreams: Wall Street, Academia, and
the Rise of Biotechnology |