Nobel Life
Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their Life Stories, Advice for Future Generations and What Remains to be Discovered

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

Stefano Sandrone (Author)

9781108838283, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 June 2021

230 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.51 kg

'sometimes funny, occasionally poignant, and always insightful … Highly recommended for all readers.' Z. B. Johnson, Choice Connect

Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Their breakthrough discoveries have revolutionised medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Nobel Life consists of original interviews with twenty-four Nobel Prize winners. Each of them has a unique story to tell. They recall their eureka moments and the challenges they overcame along the way, give advice to inspire future generations and discuss what remains to be discovered. Engaging and thought-provoking, Nobel Life provides an insight into life behind the Nobel Prize winners. A call from Stockholm turned a group of twenty-four academics into Nobel Prize winners. This is their call to the next generations worldwide.

1. The periodic table Roald Hoffmann
2. Eureka in Disney world Peter Agre
3. Flying high Richard Ernst
4. I'll show you what a woman can do Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
5. Toys' stories Aaron Ciechanover and Edmond Fischer
6. Clarity Tim Hunt
7. Mentoring Martin Chalfie, Hamilton Smith and Johann Deisenhofer
8. A stroke of colour Roger Tsien
9. Impact factors Randy Schekman
10. Know thyself Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
11. Memory and vision Eric Kandel and Torsten Wiesel
12. Words and people Daniel Kahneman
13. Christmas and carol Elizabeth Blackburn and Hamilton Smith
14. Rocket science Kary Mullis
15. The big bang practice Arno Penzias, Hamilton Smith and David Gross
16. Houston, we have a solution and many questions John Mather
17. À la recherche of space and time Brian Schmidt
18. Leadership and society Roger Myerson
19. Of kings and cabbages Bob Solow
20. Foreword to the future
Index.

Subject Areas: History of engineering & technology [TBX], History of science [PDX], History of mathematics [PBX], History of ideas [JFCX], True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH], Biography: science, technology & medicine [BGT]