The book now covers all prize winners to 2007 and provides a detailed statistical analysis of what is required to win a Nobel Prize, why it sometimes takes a long time to collect the award, and what the prizes have meant to human progress. In addition, winners of other prestigious international awards for intellectual achievement are included.
... Emil Theodor - 114 Köhler , Georges J.F. – 118 Kohn , Walter - 113 Koopmans , Tjulling Charles - 126 Kornberg ... Laboratories - 37 Lagerkvist , Par Fabian - 130 Lagerlof , Selma Ottilia Lovisa - 128 Lamb , Willis Eugene , Jr. – 122 ...
... V. Prelog ( Swi ) Eugenio Montale ( 1 ) W. N. Lipscomb ( US ) K. von Frisch ( FRG ) K. Lorenz ( Au ) N. Tinbergen ... Richter ( US ) S. C. C. Ting ( US ) P. W. Anderson ( US ) N. F. Mott ( GB ) J. H. Van Vleck ( US ) P. L. Kapitsa ...
... V. Prelog ( Swi ) Eugenio Montale ( I ) A. Sakharov ( USSR ) W. N. Lipscomb ( US ) K. von Frisch ( FRG ) K. Lorenz ... Richter ( US ) S. C. C. Ting ( US ) P. W. Anderson ( US ) N. F. Mott ( GB ) J. H. Van Vleck ( US ) P. L. Kapitsa ...
A biography of Jimmy Carter discussing his journey from a peanut farm in rural Georgia to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
They kept on coming for many weeks , even after the first rains had come and the sea became rough and the smell disappeared . A priest arrived among the last . He walked all over , eating bread dipped in light coffee , and little by ...
Features Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Lecture, delivered in December 2006.
Words replace weapons and hope replaces the agony of war in this moving volume, containing excerpts from Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches and lectures given by laureates since the award's inception in 1901.