Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Prizes? What prizes? 7
4. CHAPTER ONE Introducing Prize Studies: Perspectives on Reward Mechanisms in Science 9
5. CHAPTER TWO Everybody’s Searching for a Hero : Controversial Nobel Laureates and the Status of the Nobel Prize 19
6. CHAPTER THREE Nobel Artefacts : Material Heritage of Nobel Prize Laureates in the Netherlands 39
7. CHAPTER FOUR What Heroes does Literature Need? Insight into the Nobel Prize as a Literary Motif 65
8. CHAPTER FIVE The Post-Heroic Nobel Laureate Having Fun : A New Scientific Ideal in Post-War America 81
9. CHAPTER SIX Demythologizing Science : Reijer Hooykaas on Hero Worship as “Undesirable” and “Disdaining” 115
10. CHAPTER SEVEN Honours Without Impact : Emil von Behring’s Inconsequential Nobel Prize 141
11. CHAPTER EIGHT A Hotly Contested Nobel : Christiaan Eijkman, Gerrit Grijns and the Discovery of Vitamin B1 159
12. 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 181
13. CHAPTER TEN What Does it Take for an Anatomist to Get a Nobel Prize? An Analysis of the Nobel Prize Nominations for Wolfgang Bargmann, Albert von Kölliker and Hans Spemann 203
14. CHAPTER ELEVEN Physicians as Candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize 217
15. About the Authors 227
16. Index of Names 229