Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States (2)
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- Synopsis
- Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of the ultra-elite in science.The study draws on biographical and bibliographical data on laureates who did their prize-winning research in the United States, and on detailed interviews with forty-one of the fifty-six laureates living in the United States at the time the study was done. Zuckerman finds laureates being successively advantaged as time passes. These advantages are producing growing disparities between the elite and other scientists both in performance and in rewards, which create and maintain a sharply graded stratification system.
- Copyright:
- 1995
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781351306867
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781351306881, 9781138532311, 9781560008552, 9781138532311, 9781560008552
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 07/10/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Taylor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Science, Education
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- William T. Golden