Nobel Genius: Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice

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Nobel Genius

Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice

Edited by: Nils Hansson and Ad Maas

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize.

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Nils Hansson is Professor of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. His research interests include recognition in academia, research ethics, and medical history in the Baltic Sea region.Ad Maas is Curator of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, the Dutch National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, and Professor in Museological Aspects of the Natural Sciences at Leiden University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Prizes? What prizes? Klaas Landsman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
CHAPTER ONE Introducing Prize Studies: Perspectives on Reward Mechanisms in Science Nils Hansson and Ad Maas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
CHAPTER TWO Everybody’s Searching for a Hero : Controversial Nobel Laureates and the Status of the Nobel Prize Gustav Källstrand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
CHAPTER THREE Nobel Artefacts : Material Heritage of Nobel Prize Laureates in the Netherlands Ad Maas and Louise Lagarde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
CHAPTER FOUR What Heroes does Literature Need? Insight into the Nobel Prize as a Literary Motif Daniela Link Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
CHAPTER FIVE The Post-Heroic Nobel Laureate Having Fun : A New Scientific Ideal in Post-War America Annelie Drakman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
CHAPTER SIX Demythologizing Science : Reijer Hooykaas on Hero Worship as “Undesirable” and “Disdaining” Jelmer Heeren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
CHAPTER SEVEN Honours Without Impact : Emil von Behring’s Inconsequential Nobel Prize Christiaan Engberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
CHAPTER EIGHT A Hotly Contested Nobel : Christiaan Eijkman, Gerrit Grijns and the Discovery of Vitamin B1 Rob van den Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
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 Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
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 Nils Hansson, Giacomo Padrini, Andreas Winkelmann and Mathias Schütz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
CHAPTER ELEVEN Physicians as Candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize Leander Scheel and Nils Hansson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229

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October 24, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9789400604582

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234

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6

https://doi.org/10.24415/9789400604582

eBook ISBN: 9789400604582

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Nobel Prizes; Hero-worship in science; History of Dutch science; scientific culture; public understanding of science

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Professional and scholarly;

Nobel Genius

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