Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize 9780307952356, 2012050707

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige 9781559705370, 155970537X, 9781559705929, 1559705922

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Marie Curie: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Scientist Who Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *In

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Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize 9780231887335

Looks at the local background in the midst of which the Norwegian Storting's Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobe

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My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize 9780520955332

As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont,

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Gandhi and the Nobel Peace Prize 9781351036122, 9781138490031, 9781351036146

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Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Nobel Prize [Volume 1] 9780367438975

The Nobel Prize is science’s highest award, as is the case with non-science fields too, and it is therefore arguably the

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Periodic Table And A Missed Nobel Prize, The [1 ed.] 9789814295956, 9814295957

In a relatively brief but masterful recounting, Professor Ulf Lagerkvist traces the origins and seminal developments in

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The World’s Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize 0198841876, 9780198841876

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prizeis a fascinating, insider account of t

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The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature 9780824864958

In the 1980s China’s politicians, writers, and academics began to raise an increasingly urgent question: why had a Chine

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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries [2 ed.] 9780309072700, 0309072700

In Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reason for this astonishing disparity. She does so

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