Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. Why? In this updated version of "Nobel Prize Women in Science", Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women ...
Pamuks first book since winning the Nobel Prize is a dazzling collection of essays, written over the last three decades, on his lifelong obsessions, his own work, and the work of others. Illustrated with photographs, paintings, and the authors own sketches.
In "The Art and Politics of Science" a Nobel prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions and veteran of the American science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. A year into his graduate studies in literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found ...
The moving, inspiring memoir of Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, offers a vivid picture of the struggles of one woman against the system.
A tale of the elegant yet ruthless world of science in which Cantor embarks on an experiment that will earn him the Nobel Prize. Celly Price is also pursuing a promising career and her aunt Paula discovers Cantor's other passions - chamber music, erotic art, and her.
Published to coincide with the 2000 Nobel Prize awards, this reference is the only book to explore every aspect of the coveted prize: its founder, its aura, all its six fields, its laureates' personalities and rivals, and its controversies and blunders.
Witty, incisive observations on such universally meaningful topics as courage and compassion by many of the greatest minds of the 20th and 21st centuries are included in this collection of insightful, thought-provoking, sometimes humorous statements.
A look at the achievement of 200 of the most famous, important or interesting Nobel prize winners of the 20th century -- arranged chronologically and illustrated by a portrait and in some cases explanatory diagrams. An appendix lists all winners.
Blessed by His Holiness Pope John Paul II, this magnificent biography of Mother Teresa traces her life, from her first religious calling to her death in 1997 to her beatification in 2003, and chronicles the events that continue to this day as Mother Teresa is considered for sainthood. Full color.
Broken Genius is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Shockley won a Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor, upon which almost everything that makes the modern world is based. Little has affected history as much as this device, ...
In this richly-illustrated book the author combines history with real science. Using an original approach he presents the major achievements of twentieth-century physics - for example, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein ...
The Nobel Prize is awarded each year for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. This new biography explores the enduring legacy of the man who established the award and for whom it is named, Alfred Nobel. Illustrations.
Walk the long road to freedom with Nelson Mandela--one of the 20th century's shining beacons of peaceful protest. Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring figures in modern history. For 27 years he was a "prisoner of conscience"--a civil rights leader unjustly imprisoned for his struggle against apartheid, South Africa's institutionalized ...
In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, "How to Win the Nobel Prize" is also a broader ...
Examines the life and times of Jane Addams who, in 1889, established in Hull House one of the first settlement houses in America and later became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Edward B. Lewis' science is the bridge linking experimental genetics as conducted in the first half of the 20th century, and the powerful molecular genetic approaches that revolutionized the field in its last quarter. His Nobel Prize winning studies founded the field of developmental genetics and laid the groundwork for our current understanding ...
Selected by the world's foremost historian of the Nobel Peace Prize, this collection features excerpts from acceptance speeches since the award's inception in 1901, including 2007 winner Al Gore. With photographs throughout, The Words of Peace includes biographical notes on each winner, along with a complete chronology.
Celebrating a century of revolutionary contributions to our understanding of life, the world, and the universe, this encyclopedic desk reference traces the discoveries that earned nearly 500 distinguished scientists Nobel honors in the areas of chemistry, physics, and medicine. "The School of Library Journal" called it '...eye-catching...Original ...
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