The Road to Stockholm. Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists

ISBN-13: 9780198607854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 392 str.

Istvban Hargittai

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Review from previous edition The history of the Nobel prizes for science, first awarded in 1901, is an absorbing chronicle of perseverance and truimph, rivalry and vanity; István Hargittai tells it with gossipy aplomb and more than 100 interviews with living laureates.

O autorze

Istv'an Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry of the Budapest University of Technology, and Economics and Research Professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at E"otv"os University. He has done research in molecular structures, lectured in 30 countries, and authored books on structural chemistry and symmetry-related topics, including Symmetry through the Eyes of a Chemist (with Magdolna Hargittai), second edition, Plenum; Symmetry: A Unifying Concept, Shelter Publ.; In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery (with Magdolna Hargittai), Kluwer/Plenum; and Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists and Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists, Imperial College Press. He is Editor-in-Chief of Structural Chemistry (Kluwer, New York).