The Prix Jean Rostand is decreed since 1978 by the Universal Movement of the Scientific Responsibility.

It is allotted to an author being expressed in French language, for a scientific popularizing work published in the year.

Prizes winner

• 1978
• Pierre Kohler, for Satellites of the world (ED. Hatchet)
• 1980
• Alain Sournia, for Ten billion neurons (ED. The Universal Thought)
• 1982
• Bernard Maitte, for the light (ED. The Threshold)
• 1984
• Ivar Ekeland, for calculation, unforeseen the (ED. The Threshold)
• 1986
• Dominique Simmonet, for Lives the babies (ED. The Threshold)
• 1989
• Marc Peschanski, for the Brain repaired (ED. The Threshold)
• 1991
• Bruno Jacomy, for a history of the techniques (ED. The Threshold)
• 1992
• Pascal Tassy, for the message of the fossils (ED. Hatchet)
• 1993
• Bernadette Bensaude and Isabelle Stengers, for History of chemistry (ED. The Discovery)
• 1994
• Sylvie Joussaume, for Climate of yesterday at tomorrow (ED. CNRS editions/ECA)
• 1995
• Claudine Cohen, for the destiny of the mammoth (ED. The Threshold)
• 1996
• Benedicte de Boysson-Bardies, for How the word comes to the children (ED. Odile Jacob)
• 1997
• Stanislas Dehaene, for the bump of the maths (ED. Odile Jacob)
• 1998
• Nicolas Pranzos, for Voyages in the future (ED. The Threshold)
• 2000
• Jean-Claude Ameisen, for sculpture of alive the (ED. The Threshold)
• Thierry Delorme, for the pain, an evil to fight (ED. Gallimard, coll Discovered)
• 2001
• Jean-Louis Hartenberger, for a brêve history of the mammals, breviary of mammology (ED. Belin, coll For Science)
• 2002
• Jean Eisenstaedt, for Einstein and General relativity (ED. CNRS editions, coll History of sciences)
• 2003
• Marc Jeannerod, for the brain intimates (ED. Odile Jacob)
• 2004
• Eric Ruffiat, for his courses of psychoanalysis
• Etienne Klein, for Small voyage in the world of the quanta , (ED. Flammarion)
• 2005
• Jean Lefort, for the cartographic adventure (ED. Belin, coll For Science)
• 2006
• Robert Barbault, for an elephant in man, ninepins in the biodiversity (Editions of the Threshold, Collection open Science)

External bond

• www.prix-jeanrostand.org