Isbn: 9781559705370 - the nobel prize: a history of genius , controversy and prestige (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 489 pages. dj chippedA lively history of the world's most prestigious award traces the history of the Nobel Prize, explaining how it originated, how it works, and how it is influ enced by outside pressures and discussing the six fields in which it is awarded- -literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics--and its laureat es. 15,000 first printing. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly If you had been awakened by an early-morning phone call this October to learn that you had just been awarded a Nobel Prize, you would have won a little under one million dollars and worldwide fame. However, if your sleep was undisturbed, you are in t he company of Marcel Proust, Jonas Salk, Edwin Hubble, Joan Robinson, Mahatma Ga ndhiAto name only a few world-renowned figures listed by Feldman who weren't awa rded a prize. Feldman, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and ideas, su rveys the history of the six illustrious prizes, which all sprang from a vague p aragraph in dynamite king Alfred Nobel's will. The proceedings of the Swedish an d Norwegian institutions that award the prizes are kept sealed, but Feldman, who uses earlier accounts containing leaks and interviews, analyzes the choices sin ce 1901 to show the jostling for favorite candidates that occurs, and how prizes are often awarded to make a political statement, especially those for literatur e and peace. Feldman relies almost exclusively on secondary literature; his relu ctance to interview living prize winners makes his otherwise carefully considere d study less than definitive. The structure is occasionally flabby and the chapt ers on the science prizes are slightly technical, but the reader who isn't a sci ence buff will get a valuable short course in the history of 20th-century scienc. …

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