- 234 pages
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About this book
Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize. It contributes to modern approaches in history and sociology of science that focus on the social context of scientific practices and gives new insights into the role of status and impact in academia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Prizes? What prizes?
- Chapter One
- Introducing Prize Studies: Perspectives on Reward Mechanisms in Science
- Chapter Two
- Everybodyâs Searching for a Hero: Controversial Nobel Laureates and the Status of the Nobel Prize
- Chapter Three
- Nobel Artefacts: Material Heritage of Nobel Prize Laureates in the Netherlands
- Chapter Four
- What Heroes does Literature Need? Insight into the Nobel Prize as a Literary Motif
- Chapter Five
- The Post-Heroic Nobel Laureate Having Fun: AÂ New Scientific Ideal in Post-War America
- Chapter Six
- Demythologizing Science: Reijer Hooykaas on Hero Worship as âUndesirableâ and âDisdainingâ
- Chapter Seven
- Honours Without Impact: Emil von Behringâs Inconsequential Nobel Prize
- Chapter Eight
- A Hotly Contested Nobel: Christiaan Eijkman, Gerrit Grijns and the Discovery of Vitamin B1
- 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
- Chapter Ten
- What Does it Take for an Anatomist to Get a Nobel Prize? An Analysis of the Nobel Prize Nominations for Wolfgang Bargmann, Alert von Kölliker and Hans Spemann
- Chapter Eleven
- Physicians as Candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize
- About the Authors
- Index
- Blank Page