num_pages: 489
description: A lively history of the world's most prestigious award traces the history of the Nobel Prize, explaining how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures and discussing the six fields in which it is awarded--literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics--and its laureates. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige
titlecomplete: The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige
genres: Science, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy
ratings_count: 77
publisher: Arcade Publishing