Scientific Elite

Nobel Laureates in the United States
Herausgeber: Golden, William T

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781560008552
• ISBN-10: 1560008555
• Artikelnr.: 26193727

Autorenporträt

William T. Golden

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Nobel Laureates and Scientific Elites
Chapter 2: The Sociology of the Nobel Prize
Chapter 3: The Social Origins of Laureates
Chapter 4: Masters and Apprentices in Science
Chapter 5: Moving into the Scientific Elite
Chapter 6: The Prize-Winning Research
Chapter 7: After the Prize
Chapter 8: The Nobel Prize and the Accumulation of Advantage in Science
Appendix A: Interviewing an Ultra-elite
Appendix B: Nobel Laureates in Science
1901-76
Appendix C: Prize-Winning Research: Specialty and Year of Award
Appendix D: Official Occupants of the Forty-first Chair: "Honorable Mentions" for Nobel Prizes
Appendix E: Age-Specific Annual Rates of Productivity of Laureates and a Matched Sample of Scientists Who Survived to Each Age
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects