Losing the Nobel Prize: A story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor.
Keating, Brian
Losing the Nobel Prize: A story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor. - 1st ed - New York : W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., c2018. - xxi, 326p. : ill. ; 21cm
Including illustration, acknowledgements, notes, index .
In Losing the Nobel Prize, cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating tells the inside story of BICEP2's mesmerising discovery and the scientific drama that ensued. In an adventure story that spans the globe, Keating takes us on a personal journey of revelation and discovery, bringing to vivid life the highly competitive, take-no-prisoners, publish-or-perish world of modern science. Along the way, he provocatively argues that the Nobel Prize, instead of advancing scientific progress, may actually hamper it, encouraging speed and greed while punishing collaboration and bold innovation.
9780393357394 (pbk.) USD17.95 = Astronomy
Astronomy
Cosmology
523.180 / KEA
Losing the Nobel Prize: A story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor. - 1st ed - New York : W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., c2018. - xxi, 326p. : ill. ; 21cm
Including illustration, acknowledgements, notes, index .
In Losing the Nobel Prize, cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating tells the inside story of BICEP2's mesmerising discovery and the scientific drama that ensued. In an adventure story that spans the globe, Keating takes us on a personal journey of revelation and discovery, bringing to vivid life the highly competitive, take-no-prisoners, publish-or-perish world of modern science. Along the way, he provocatively argues that the Nobel Prize, instead of advancing scientific progress, may actually hamper it, encouraging speed and greed while punishing collaboration and bold innovation.
9780393357394 (pbk.) USD17.95 = Astronomy
Astronomy
Cosmology
523.180 / KEA
