The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution
Subtitle: The Science Prizes, 19011915
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521347471
Subjects: Science funding & policy; History Of Science; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Study & Teaching; Physics; Science / History; Science-Study & Teaching; Technology / General
First sentence: To place the Nobel prizes in their proper historical setting it is necessary to retrace briefly the growth and changing functions of prizes and medals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.