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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Marc Friedman |
| ISBN: | 0716731037 9780716731030 |
| OCLC Number: | 46793099 |
| Description: | xv, 379 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Legendary Excellence -- Permanent Battles Will Surely be Waged for Every Prize -- The Stupidest Use of a Bequest That I Can Imagine! -- Coming Apart at the Seams -- Sympathy for an Area Closely Connected with My Own Specialty -- Each Nobel Prize Can Be Likened to a Swedish Flag -- Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences ... Seen Nothing, Heard Nothing, and Understood Nothing? -- Should the Nobel Prize Be Awarded in Wartime? -- While the Sores Are Still Dripping Blood! -- Small Popes in Uppsala -- Einstein Must Never Get a Nobel Prize -- To Sit on a Nobel Committee Is Like Sitting on Quicksand -- Clamor in the Academy -- Don't Shoot the Piano Player, He's Doing the Best He Can -- It Can Happen That Pure Pettiness Enters -- One Ought to Think the Matter Over Twice -- Scandalous Traffic -- Dazzling Dialects -- Completely Lacking an Unambiguous, Objective Standard -- The Knights Templar. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Marc Friedman. |
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