Nobel Genius : Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice / edited by Nils Hansson and Ad Maas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansson, Nils, editor.

Maas, Ad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobel Prizes--History.

Nobel Prizes.

Science and technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Leiden University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize. It contributes to modern approaches in history and sociology of science that focus on the social context of scientific practices and gives new insights into the role of status and impact in academia.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Prizes? What prizes?

Preface by Klaas Landsman

Chapter One

Introducing Prize Studies: Perspectives on Reward Mechanisms in Science

Nils Hansson & Ad Maas

Chapter Two

Everybody’s Searching for a Hero : Controversial Nobel Laureates and the Status of the Nobel Prize

Gustav Källstrand

Chapter Three

Nobel Artefacts : Material Heritage of Nobel Prize Laureates in the Netherlands

Ad Maas & Louise Lagarde1

Chapter Four

What Heroes does Literature Need? Insight into the Nobel Prize as a Literary Motif

Daniela Link

Chapter Five

The Post-Heroic Nobel Laureate Having Fun : A New Scientific Ideal in Post-War America

Annelie Drakman

Chapter Six

Demythologizing Science : Reijer Hooykaas on Hero Worship as “Undesirable” and “Disdaining”

Jelmer Heeren

Chapter Seven

Honours Without Impact : Emil von Behring’s Inconsequential Nobel Prize

Christiaan Engberts

Chapter Eight

A Hotly Contested Nobel : Christiaan Eijkman, Gerrit Grijns and the Discovery of Vitamin B1

Rob van den Berg

Chapter Nine

Konrad Lorenz, Nicolaas Tinbergen, and Karl von Frisch : the Scientific Network and the Controversy over the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 Generated by AI.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9789400604582

9400604580

OCLC:

1467874315