Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor by Brian Keating

Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
Brian Keating
Page: 368
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780393357394
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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A Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018

“Charming and clever, Losing the Nobel Prize bounces between clear explanations of nitty-gritty science, accounts of personal relationships and historical lessons.”—ScienceNews Cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment, Brian Keating tells the inside story of the mesmerizing quest to unlock cosmology’s biggest mysteries and the human drama that ensued. We follow along on a personal journey of revelation and discovery in the publish-or-perish world of modern science, and learn that the Nobel Prize might hamper—rather than advance—scientific progress. Fortunately, Keating offers practical solutions for reform, providing a vision of a scientific future in which cosmologists may finally be able to see all the way back to the very beginning.

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