Cultures of creativity : the centennial exhibition of the Nobel prize / Ulf Larsson, editor ; [English language translation by Daniel M. Olson].

Other author Larsson, Ulf, 1965-
Format Book
Publication InfoCanton, MA : Science History Publications, 2001.
Description228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Subjects
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896.
Nobel Prizes--History.
Nobel Prize winners--Biography.

Uniform titleMänniskor, miljöer och kreativitet. English.
SeriesNobel Museum Archives ; 2
Nobel Museum Archives ; 2. ^A524647
Contents Alfred Nobel and his times -- The Nobel system -- Individual creativity -- Marie Curie -- Samuel Beckett -- The Dalai Lama -- Amartya Sen -- Boris Pasternak -- Linus Pauling -- Ahmed Zewail -- Werner Forssmann -- Barbara McClintock -- Nelly Sachs -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Yasunari Kawabata -- Dag Hammarskjöld -- Hideki Yukawa -- Ernest Hemingway -- Issac Bashevis Singer -- Nelson Mandela -- Kim Dae-jung -- Max Perutz -- Roger Sperry -- Fridtjof Nansen -- August Krogh -- Richard Feynman -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Selma Lagerlöf -- Charles Townes -- Linus Pauling -- Erwin Schrödinger -- Henry Dunant -- Alexander Fleming -- Wilhelm Röntgen -- Peyton Rous -- Irène Jliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot -- Joseph Brodsky -- Jane Addams -- C.T.R. Wilson -- Arne Tiselius -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Santiago Ramón y Cajal -- Wole Soyinka -- William Butler Yeats -- George de Hevesy -- Piotr Kapitsa -- James D. Watson and Francis Crick -- Creative milieus -- Santiniketan -- Budapest -- Copenhagen -- Cold Spring Harbor -- Basel Institute for Immunology -- The Pasteur Institute -- CERN -- The Chicago School of Economics -- Berkeley -- Cambridge -- Paris -- Tokyo -- Vienna -- The Solvay Conferences -- The International Campaign to Ban Landmines -- Nobel laureates 1901-2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-222) and index.
LCCN 2001018355
ISBN0881352888

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