Author: Peter Badge
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: nobel, winners, prize, gallery, faces
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 3527406786
ISBN-13: 9783527406784

More than 270 striking black-and-white portraits of all Nobel Prize Winners alive today, such as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, John M. Coetzee, Roy J. Glauber, James Watson and Jimmy Carter, taken by Berlin photographer Peter Badge. Each photograph is accompanied by a short biography, resulting in a fascinating word/image tableau. With an afterword by Wim Wenders.

Author: Fredrik S. Heffermehl
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: nobel, wanted, really, prize, peace
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2010-08-19
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0313387443
ISBN-13: 9780313387449

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most coveted award, galvanizing the world’s attention for 110 years. In recent decades, it has also become the world’s most reviled award, as heads of militarized states and out-and-out warmongers and terrorists have been showered with peace prizes. Delving into previously unpublished primary sources, Fredrik Heffermehl reveals the history of the inner workings of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as it has come under increasing political, geopolitical, and commercial pressures to make inappropriate awards. As a Norwegian lawyer, Heffermehl ma

Author: Margaretha Talerman
Publisher: American Swedish History Museum
Keywords: nobel, catalogue, exhibition, century, celebrating, prizes
Number of Pages: 17
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1422365581
ISBN-13: 9781422365588

Catalogue of an Exhibition at the American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, Oct. 2001. This exhibition explains who Alfred Nobel was, why he established the prizes that bear his name, & what he hoped to accomplish with them. There are six prizes in all. Five recognize people who have made great contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, & economics. The sixth prize, the Peace Prize, is given to people or institutions that have furthered the cause of peace in the world. Contents: Introduction; Alfred Nobel -- A Brief Life, by Margareth

Author: Ulf Larsson
Publisher: Science History Pubns
Keywords: nobel, prize, archives, museum, exhibition, creativity, centennial, cultures
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2001-04-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0881352888
ISBN-13: 9780881352887

Author: B. Malstrom
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: nobel, lectures, speeches, laureate, including, chemistry, presentation
Number of Pages: 708
Published: 1992-10
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 9810207891
ISBN-13: 9789810207892

Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1981-1990 with a description of the work which won them their prizes. (1981) K.Fukui and R.Hoffmann - for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions; (1982) A.Klug - for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nuclei acid-protein complexes. (1983) H.Taube - for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes; (1984) R.B.Merrifield - for his development of the methodology for chemical syn

Author: Stockholm, Sweden) Nobel Symposium (78th : 1990 :
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: nobel, symposium, proceedings, history, national, conceptions
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1994-06
List price: $151.00
ISBN-10: 3110135043
ISBN-13: 9783110135046

Author: S. Lundqvist
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: nobel, lectures, speeches, laureate, including, physics, presentation
Number of Pages: 603
Published: 1991-12
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 9810207271
ISBN-13: 9789810207274

These volumes are collections of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches for the period 1971 - 1990. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work that won the laureate his prize. New biographical data of the laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel Prize, are also included. These volumes of inspiring lectures by outstanding physicists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of physics as well as those in related fields.