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The politics of excellence : behind the Nobel Prize in science by Robert Marc Friedman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The politics of excellence : behind the Nobel Prize in science about?
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
Who reads The politics of excellence : behind the Nobel Prize in science?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Marc Friedman
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780716731030
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Chemistry, Social Science
