Winner of the 1995 Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize is Arno Karlen for
Plague’s Progress, tales of diseases and their effects on humans and history. He
was, coincidentally, unable to collect his award as he was plagued with illness.
Publisher Kingfisher takes the junior prize for The World of Weather.
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