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A book exploring the importance of materials has won the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
Prof Mark Miodonik's Stuff Matters looks at everything from the everyday objects in our home to new wonder materials that will shape our future.
His work beat five other titles covering topics ranging from biomedical innovations to the elements that have changed our world.
The judges decided unanimously to award Prof Miodownik the £25,000 prize.
Each of the five runners-up received £2,500.
The full title of Prof Miodownik's work is: Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World.
He said he was staggered and really surprised to win.


The full shortlist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books was:

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
by Philip Ball (The Bodley Head)
Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon
by John Browne (Weidenfeld & Nicolson - an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group)
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
by Pedro G. Ferreira (Little, Brown Book Group)
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson (The Bodley Head)
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
by Mark Miodownik (Viking - an imprint of Penguin Books)
Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach (Oneworld)

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