Scientific Elite (eBook, ePUB)

Nobel Laureates in the United States
Redaktion: Golden, William T.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of the ultra-elite in science.

The study draws on biographical and bibliographical data on laureates who did their prize-winning research in the United States, and on detailed interviews with forty-one of the fifty-six laureates living in the United States at the time the study was done. Zuckerman finds laureates being successively advantaged as time passes. These advantages are producing growing disparities between the elite and other scientists both in performance and in rewards, which create and maintain a sharply graded stratification system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 335
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351306867
• Artikelnr.: 56834333

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