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100 ВЕЛИКИХ НОБЕЛЕВСКИХ ЛАУРЕАТОВ

Bibliographic Description

100 великих нобелевских лауреатов / Мусский, С.А. – М. : Вече, 2004. – (100 великих). – ISBN 5-94538-358-8.

Author
Мусский, С.А.
Publisher
Вече
Year of publication
2004
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

The inventor of dynamite, the industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, left humanity an unusual will concerning the fate of his capital. In 1900, on the basis of the stipulated conditions, the Nobel Foundation was created, and thereafter the awarding of Nobel Prizes to outstanding scientists, writers, and peace advocates began. These functions were entrusted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Storting (parliament) of Norway. Unfortunately, owing to the influence of political circumstance and cultural-aesthetic stereotypes, the prize was never awarded to Leo Tolstoy, Marina Tsvetaeva, or Federico García Lorca. Outstanding Soviet and Russian scientists are extremely scarce among the lists of laureates. However, with all its shortcomings, the Nobel Prize remains the most prestigious in the world. The new book in the "100 Great" series tells of the most outstanding Nobel laureates of the past century, among them Bunin and Hemingway, Sholokhov and Márquez, Röntgen and Einstein, Pavlov and Fleming, Rutherford and Curie, Nansen and Mother Teresa.

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