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
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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