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

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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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 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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There Is Life After the Nobel Prize 9780231553469

Neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000. He takes readers through

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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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The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn 9781400883417

Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated

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Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life 9780804775076

This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the natur

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