The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and PrestigeArcade Pub., 2000 - 489 páginas Founded 100 years ago by the inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize is the world's most celebrated and controversial honor. It grants its winners instant celebrity and acclaim for "service to mankind", despite accusations that it is too trendy, arbitrary, and narrow-minded. In examining both its fame and notoriety, Burton Feldman opens up the Nobel institution and process: how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures (political, moral, personal, and academic). "The Nobel Prize" is an extraordinary work that never fails to surprise, provoke, and entertain. This is the only book to explore every aspect of the prize: its founder, its aura, all its fields (literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics), and its laureates' personalities and rivalries, as well as its controversies and blunders. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
The Founding Father | 25 |
The Nobel Prize Invents Itself | 40 |
The Nobel Prize in Literature | 55 |
The Nobel Prize and the Sciences | 114 |
The Nobel Prize in Physics | 125 |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 201 |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 237 |
The Economics Memorial Prize | 328 |
Conclusion | 356 |
Chronology of Prizes | 363 |
Value of Prizes | 397 |
Women Laureates | 403 |
Family Laureates | 405 |
Selected Bibliography | 449 |
Index | 471 |
The Peace Prize | 290 |
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