Science History Publications, U.S.A. Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 2002 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's white wrappers, illustrated by few colour illustrations In-4 1 vol. - 228 pages
numerous colour and black and white illustrations Revised edition, 2002 Contents, Chapitres : Foreword, Introduction - Alfred Nobel and its times - The Nobel system - 1. Individual creativity : Marie Curie - Samuel Beckett - The Dalai Lama - Amartya Sen - Boris Pasternak - Linus Pauling - Ahmed Zewail - Werner Forssmann - Barbara McClintock - Aung San Suu Kyi - Yasunari Kawabata - Dag Hammarskjöld - Hideki Yukawa - Ernest Hemingway - Isaac 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 Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot - Joseph Brodsky - Jane Addams - C.T.R. Wilson - Arne Tiselius - Martin Luther King Jr. - Santiago Ramon y Cajal - Wole Soyinka - William Bulter Yeats - George de Hevesy - Piotr Kapitsa - James D. Watson and Francis Crick - 2. Creative milieus : Santiniketan - Budapest - Copenhagen - Cold Spring Harbor - Basel Institute of Technology - The Pasteur Institute - C.E.R.N - The Chicago School of Economics - Berkeley - Cambridge - Paris - Tokyo - Vienna - The Solvay conferences - The international campaign to ban landmines - 3. Nobel laureates, 1901-2000 - References, names index near fine copy, no markings, inside is fine