Nobel genius prizes, prestige and scientific practice

Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hansson, Nils (HerausgeberIn), Maas, Ad (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Leiden University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize. It contributes to modern approaches in history and sociology of science that focus on the social context of scientific practices and gives new insights into the role of status and impact in academia
Beschreibung:231 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9789087284138
978-90-8728-413-8
9087284136
90-8728-413-6