The Road to Stockholm by Hargittai

The Road to Stockholm by Hargittai

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The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a scientist can receive. This book brings the Nobel Prize, the science, and the human drama behind it into focus, based on the author's encounters with over 70 Nobel laureates and other famous scientists.

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The Road to Stockholm by Hargittai

The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a scientist can receive. This book brings the Nobel Prize, the science, and the human drama behind it into focus, based on the author's encounters with over 70 Nobel laureates and other famous scientists.
Review from previous edition The history of the Nobel prizes for science, first awarded in 1901, is an absorbing chronicle of perseverance and truimph, rivalry and vanity; István Hargittai tells it with gossipy aplomb and more than 100 interviews with living laureates* John Cornwell writing in The Sunday Times *
István Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry of the Budapest University of Technology, and Economics and Research Professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös University. He has done research in molecular structures, lectured in 30 countries, and authored books on structural chemistry and symmetry-related topics, including Symmetry through the Eyes of a Chemist (with Magdolna Hargittai), second edition, Plenum; Symmetry: A Unifying Concept, Shelter Publ.; In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery (with Magdolna Hargittai), Kluwer/Plenum; and Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists and Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists, Imperial College Press. He is Editor-in-Chief of Structural Chemistry (Kluwer, New York). In December 2001, Professor Hargittai was invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm to deliver a lecture on the subject of this book.
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ISBN 13 9780198607854
ISBN 10 0198607857
Title The Road to Stockholm
Author Hargittai
Series Oxford Paperbacks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2003-08-28
Number of pages 388
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.