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Weitere BilderAlfred Nobel: The Man and His Work
Bergengren, Erik; Nils K. Staahle [Supplement]; Alan Blair [Translator]; [Ralph Bunche]; [William Shockley]; [Linus Pauling]
Verlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, London, 1962
- Erstausgabe
- Signiert
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Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First English-language edition of Erik Bergengren's biography of Alfred Nobel. Signed by 23 Nobel Laureates on the front and back free endpapers: Ralph Bunche (Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights advocate), William Shockley (inventor and Bunche's politic…al opposite), Linus Pauling (known for advocacy of Vitamin C but also a two-time Nobel laureate and polymath), Georg von Bekesy, Wendell M. Stanley, Rudolf Moessbauer, Robert Hofstadter, Walter H. Brattain, Harold C. Urey, Andre F. Cournand, Peter Debye, Melvin Calvin, Philip S. Hench, Edwin M. McMillan (twice), Carl D. Anderson, Arne W.K. Tiselius, Glenn T. Seaborg, James Franck, Carl F. Cori, Severo Ochoa, Emilio Segre, Polykarp Kusch, and Edward L. Tatum. xviii, 222 pp. Bound in publisher's Japon paper-covered boards, spine blocked in red and stamped in gilt, red topstain. Very Good with toning, light wear, and slight bowing to boards. Faint foxing to endpapers, light toning throughout, ink mark (apparently from same pen used for signatures) to fore edge of textblock. In a Good dust jacket with light edgewear, toning, and soiling, tape reinforcement to foldline at right of spine panel, and sticker residue to front panel. Lower corner of front flap clipped but price intact. Typewritten list of the 25 total signatures laid in.A remarkable copy of this biography, signed by Swedish astronomer and Nobel Board member Bertil Lindblad plus 23 Laureates. The signatures were collected at the Nobel Hall of Science dedication in May 1963. Twenty-six Nobel Laureates were present, of whom only William P. Murphy, Edward A. Doisy, and Edward C. Kendall did not sign this book. A great collection of signatures from some of the greatest names in the history of science.
