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A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine
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There can be no doubt that the prestige associated with the Nobel Prize
has been a driving force in the extraordinary advances in science throughout the
course of the 20th century. The Nobel Foundation has given awards to no fewer
than 450 scientists, men and women whose stories have assimilated themselves
into the public consciousness along with their discoveries and inventions. In
the beginning, the three \"hard sciences\"-chemistry, physics, and medicine-were
clearly separated, but were later found to overlap frequently, physics often
being the source of concepts and equipment that enabled progress in chemistry
and medicine. Was not the first Nobel winner in physics, Wilhelm Röntgen,
with his discovery of X rays, already on the brink of major therapeutic
applications? And have not the radioactive elements that won the Nobel Prize in
physics for Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie been used mainly in chemistry,
especially cellular chemistry, allowing us to follow the successive steps of
fundamental life processes such as photosynthesis or the Krebs cycle? The
attribution of the Nobel Prize also brings to light a social effect that cannot
be neglected: the advent of teamwork. It has become rare indeed for the prize to
be awarded to one individual. On the contrary, it is increasingly common for two
or even three researchers to be cited each year, regardless of the discipline.
This corresponds to the interdisciplinary developments among the three
aforementioned fields as well as the passion provoked by the extraordinary power
of investigation of the scientific method.

Table Of Contents

Alfred Nobel 7
The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 13 - 111
The Nobel Laureates in Physics 113 - 227
The Nobel Laureates in Medicine 229 - 360
Table: The Nobel Prize Laureates (1901-2001) 362 - 368
Bibliography 369 - 373
Photo Credits 374
Index of Recipients\' Names 375 - 376
Subject Index 377 - 380

Product Details

* ISBN: 0824708768
* ISBN-13: 9780824708764
* Format: Hardcover, 300pp
* Publisher: CRC Press
* Pub. Date: March 2003

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