Losing the Nobel Prize : a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor /: a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor. ([2018])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Losing the Nobel Prize : a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor /: a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor. ([2018])
- Main Title:
- Losing the Nobel Prize : a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest honor
- Further Information:
- Note: Brian Keating.
- Authors:
- Keating, Brian (Brian Gregory)
- Contents:
- Reading the cosmic prologue -- Losing my religion -- A brief history of time machines -- The bigger the bang, the bigger the problems -- Broken lens 1: the Nobel prize's credit problem -- Ashes to Ashes -- The spark that ignite the big bang -- BICEP: the ultimate time machine -- Heroes of fire, heroes of ice -- Broken lens 2: The Nobel prize's cash problem -- Elation! -- Inflation and it's discontents -- Broken lens 3: The Nobel prize's collaboration problem -- Deflation -- Poetry for physicists -- Restoring Alfred's vision -- An ethical wall.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages)
- Subjects:
- 523.1/8079
Big bang theory
Astronomy -- Awards
Cosmology
Science -- Methodology
Nobel Prizes
Astronomy -- Awards
Big bang theory
Cosmology
Nobel Prizes
Science -- Methodology
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781324000921
1324000929 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781324000914
1324000910 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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