The judging panel for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is:
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS
Visiting Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
Jasper Fforde
Author of Thursday Next novels and The Last Dragonslayer series
Tania Hershman
Author of short story collections, writer-in-residence at the University of Bristol and founder and editor of The Short Review
Kim Shillinglaw
BBC Commissioning Editor for Science and Natural History
Dr Samuel Turvey
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology