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Title: The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists by Istvan Hargittai, James D. Watson ISBN: 0-19-850912-X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Summary: How to win (or not win) the Nobel Prize
Comment: Professor István Hargittai, a Hungarian research chemist, has written a beautiful book about the myths and stories surrounding the Nobel Prizes for physics (P), chemistry (C), and medicine or physiology (M). Starting from the somewhat vague Nobel's Will, written in 1895, he goes on to analyze various aspects of the organization of the Nobel Foundation, national politics associated to the assignment of the prize, and the common characteristics of the winners. Many nobelists have carried out scientific experiments during their childhood while others have followed the steps of a great mentor, in some case himself a winner. Surprising for us is the kind of hardships (i.e., persecutions, illnesses, poverty, etc.) that many nobelists have faced during the initial steps of their scientific careers. Perhaps these hardships acted as catalysts in persuing one's goals. Working either in a stimulating and creative environment (for example, the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge produced a lot of winners) or in a research field different from that of origin may represent additional ingredients for success. A final (12-th) chapter is dedicated to the non-winners, i.e. top level scientists that didn't receive the prize in spite of their fundamental discoveries and contributions to science. Among them we find the russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (Periodic Table of the Elements), the botanist Michael Tsweet (discoverer of chromatography), Oswald Avery (the proposer that DNA, not proteins, is the genetic material), Leo Szilard (physicist and molecular biologist), Arnold Sommerfeld (one of the founders of quantum mechanics), the chemist G.N. Lewis (important contributor to the fields of chemical thermodynamics and the electronic structure of molecules), and Lise Meitner (co-discoverer - with Otto Hahn - of nuclear fission), just to cite some examples. An important name missing here is that of John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematical physichist that, in addition to having been a child prodigy, contributed greatly in the fields of set theory, algebra, quantum mechanics, and computer science. The reader interested in the remaining Nobel Prizes (Literature, Peace, Economics) may complement this book with Burton Feldman's "The Nobel Prize : A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige".
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Title: How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science by J. Michael Bishop ISBN: 0674008804 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists by Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai ISBN: 1860942881 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc. Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: Candid Science III: More Converstations With Famous Chemists by Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai ISBN: 1860943373 Publisher: Imperial College Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: My Life in Science by Sydney Brenner, Dr. Sydney Brenner ISBN: 0954027809 Publisher: BioMed Central, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.10 |
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Title: DNA : The Secret of Life by Andrew Berry, James D. Watson ISBN: 0375415467 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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