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Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science

By Robert Marc Friedman

Book information

Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Year
2001
ISBN
0716731037, 9780716731030
Open Library ID
OL7835099M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (3914075 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
385\385
Topic
History
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00
Исторические дисциплины;История науки и техники

Description

Introduction: Legendary Excellence -- Permanent Battles Will Surely be Waged for Every Prize -- The Stupidest Use of a Bequest That I Can Imagine! -- Coming Apart at the Seams -- Sympathy for an Area Closely Connected with My Own Specialty -- Each Nobel Prize Can Be Likened to a Swedish Flag -- Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences ... Seen Nothing, Heard Nothing, and Understood Nothing? -- Should the Nobel Prize Be Awarded in Wartime? -- While the Sores Are Still Dripping Blood! -- Small Popes in Uppsala -- Einstein Must Never Get a Nobel Prize -- To Sit on a Nobel Committee Is Like Sitting on Quicksand -- Clamor in the Academy -- Don't Shoot the Piano Player, He's Doing the Best He Can -- It Can Happen That Pure Pettiness Enters -- One Ought to Think the Matter Over Twice -- Scandalous Traffic -- Dazzling Dialects -- Completely Lacking an Unambiguous, Objective Standard -- The Knights Templar

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