Dr Henry Nicholls fails to secure Science Book Prize

On the 15 May 2007 the Royal Society Prize for Science Books was awarded to Daniel Gilbert for his book Stumbling on Happiness. It draws on psychology and neuroscience, as well as personal experience, to take the reader through the various ways people attempt to make themselves happy. Finding happiness is an underlying desire for most of us but how to achieve and sustain it often proves problematic. Gilbert uses science to show that it is not always through conventional routes that we find happiness. Stumbling on Happiness has triumphed over other strong contenders in the shortlist, including OA Dr Henry Nicholl's Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of the World's Most Famous Tortoise.