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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2003
- ISBN 9780198607854
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 196x129x22 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24pp halftone plates 0
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Short description:
The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a scientist can receive. This book brings the Nobel Prize, the science, and the human drama behind it into focus, based on the author's encounters with over 70 Nobel laureates and other famous scientists.
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The Nobel Prizes enjoy enormous prestige throughout the world. Every year, science is propelled into the limelight, and in October, when the prizes are announced, and December, when they are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, a chosen few scientists acquire celebrity status and their science receives wide coverage in the news media. First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize remains the only science prize widely recognized by the general public.
What sort of scientists become Nobel laureates? How are they chosen? Are there features common to them, and to their prize-winning research? These sorts of questions have long intrigued István Hargittai and seeking answers, he began interviewing Nobel prize-winning scientists about their careers. Some 70 laureates, and a similar number of other distinguished scientists, have been interviewed, most of them during the late 1990s, and the result is this remarkable book. Written for a general readership, The Road to Stockholm illuminates the nature of scientific discovery, the Nobel Prize selection process, the factors common to award-winning research, and the effects of the Nobel Prize on science itself. Here are stories of scientists who overcame adversity, eventually to win the Prize; insights into the importance of the laureate's mentor in earlier life, and into the significance of the location where prize-winning research is carried out; and a variety of responses to the question: what first turned you to science? No less fascinating are the well-publicised examples of deserving (in many eyes) scientists who were not awarded the Nobel Prize, and Professor Hargittai devotes a chapter to them.
Here, then, is an absorbing account of science, scientists, and a Prize created a hundred years ago to reward those who, in the words of Alfred Nobel's Will, 'during the previous year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.'
According to Hargittai, "Our students, our children, the general public, all of us would benefit from knowing a little more about science and how it comes about because so much in our modern life depends on it" (p xii). We think that The Road to Stockholm goes a long way toward making this goal a reality.
Table of Contents:
The Nobel Prize and Sweden
The Nobel Prize and national politics
Who wins Nobel Prizes?
Discoveries
Overcoming adversity
What turned you to science?
Venue
Mentor
Changing and combining
Making an impact
Is there life after the Nobel Prize?
Who did not win
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
Nobel laureates in the sciences, 1901-2001
Index
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