100 Years of Nobel Prizes [Paperback]

Baruch Aba Shalev (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0935047379 | ISBN-13: 978-0935047370 | Publication Date: September 9, 2002 | Edition: 2nd

Winning a Nobel Price is unquestionably the highest possible recognition of intellectual and personal achievement. This book provides a detailed statistical analysis of what is required to win a Nobel, why it sometimes takes a long time to collect the award, and what the prizes have meant to human progress.

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About the Author

Baruch Aba Shalev is a genetist headquartered in Israel. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Masters from the University of California, Davis. His Ph.D. in genetics was awarded by the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in research and teaching for the past 35 years. He consults with many countries interested in improving their animal production and has published over 200 scientific papers. He has applied his interest in statistics to the Nobel prizes to achieve some interesting insights and conclusions. Dr. Shalev was born in Jerusalem and currently lives in Herzliya. He is married, has three children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Americas Group; 2nd edition (September 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935047379
• ISBN-13: 978-0935047370
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not quite everything you wanted to know about the Nobel Prize, July 7, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (Paperback)

This is a very informative and interesting work.
It describes the Nobel Prize Winners in each of the major categories .It considers a wide variety of factors from nationality and religion to education. It is interesting that to the year two- thousand over forty- percent of the science winners came from the United States. And that after this came Britain around fourteen, Germany ten , and France five percent.
It is also interesting that though they constitute less than two tenths of one percent of the world's population Jews have one according to the count made in this book , thirty percent of the prizes. This figure is probably somewhat high but still the disproportionate number of Jewish winners is notable. Also certain Protestant sects have a very high proportion of Nobel winners.
The analysis however touches upon another factors beside nationality and religion. It considers the educational background of the Nobel Prize winners, and points to universities which have had many winners as students or as faculty.
There is also analysis of the ages of winners, and analysis according to gender highlighting the relative small proportion of women who have won Nobel Prizes. This is likely to change in the years ahead with greater educational opportunities for women.
This is an interesting study or rather set of studies, and is highly recommended for anyone who wishes to know about the world's most renowned prize for achievements of the Mind.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SHIMON PERES PRAISES BOOK, October 17, 2002

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This review is from: 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (Paperback)

Shimon Peres, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and a Nobel Laureate himself, wrote the following to the publisher in Los Angeles in a letter dated September 23, 2002:

"Clearly [100 Years of Nobel Prizes] is the product of meticulous research over an extended period of time, and [the author's] interesting findings indeed give much food for thought."