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Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences

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Erling Norrby shows that serendipitous events, reorienting the pathway of science, often occur through the actions of dedicated individuals with unique cultural backgrounds, an original sense of caules, and firm principles. Norrby's experience high-lights the significant challenges committee members face in wisely selecting Nobel Prize winners, challenges of which the recipients , myself included, are largely unaware."
- Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2001.

"The rich and incisive content of Norrby's book illustrates how the Nobel Prize rewards new discovery, the products of exploration beyond the edge of the known and safe and into the vast spaces of the unknown and mysterious ....... Awardees often have broad interest beyond their specialty that ornaments their imagination and allows them to see order and value in the seeming chaos of the natural world."
- Baruch S. Blumberg, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1976.

This book provides a fascinating account of Nobel Prizes in the life sciences. As a virologist, the author expertly covered the background of this field and simultaneously discussed this in relation to more recent developments. I congratulate the author and trust that this documentation will find the interest which it so well deserves.
-Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008"

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570 NOR n

Publisher

Singapore : World Scientific., 2010

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xvi, 318 p.; ilus.; 25 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-4299-37-4

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570

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Edition

2010

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Nobel Prizes
Life science

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