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Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.142
EAN: 9781556151125
ISBN: 1556151128
Label: Microsoft Pr
Manufacturer: Microsoft Pr
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: 1988-01
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Studio: Microsoft Pr
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Rating:  - Trashing Nobelist Rubbia
The author trashed a well known physicist for reasons totally beyond me. Most super-stars of science have huge egos and many detracters.
Kerry Mullis, Robert Good, and David Baltimore have all three been accused of arrogance so its nothing new.
Incidently,the author trashed Nobelist Prusiner too so Rubbia is in good company!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aside from The Patchwork Mouse and False Prophets, very few journalists do justice to the subject of scientific fraud!!!!
Rating:  - Academic Reality
Contains a good combination of hard science and the politics of actually getting stuff done. I appreciated the details of experimental particle physics, but the best part of the book is the insider perspective on getting grant money, timing the delivery of experimental results and positioning oneself for recognition from the Nobel committee. The interplay between the theorists and experimentalists was also illuminating. The only negative factor's were the needless comments on what people were ... Read More
Rating: - A great read
This book hooked me so completely that when I came across it in the library I read it from cover to cover standing (then sitting) in the aisle. Anyone with an interest in high-energy physics or academic politics with enjoy it immensely.
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