Nobel Genius : Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice
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| Title: | Nobel Genius : Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Nils Hansson, Ad Maas |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Science--Awards, Nobel Prizes--History |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Essays, SCIENCE / Natural History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9789087284138 9789400604582 |
