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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Precursors to the Nobel prizes in the sciences
• 2. Developments in Swedish and international science having a bearing on the Nobel institution
• 3. Implementing the will of Alfred Nobel, 1896-1900
• 4. An overview of the nominating system and its influence on the prize decisions
• 5. Networks at work in the prize selections: Arrhenius and Mittag-Leffler
• 6. Committee decision making
• 7. The prizes, the public, and the scientific community
• Epilogue and conclusions
• Appendixes
• A note on sources and notes
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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The Nobel Prizes have long been the most prestigious awards in the world of science. Established according to the wishes expressed in the will of Alfred Nobel (1895), the annual awards began in 1901. The Nobel Archives preserve the detailed study of the inner workings of the prize committees, and the archival documents, available for historical research since 1974, open the door to important new scholarship in the history and sociology of the prizes. Elisabeth Crawford was one of the first to gain access to the Nobel Archives at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in this book she analyzes the early history of the prizes in physics and chemistry. Crawford sets out in detail the story of the intricate inner workings of the process whereby the prizewinners were selected. A fascinating picture of the contemporary international scientific establishment emerges, one shedding light on how the developing Nobel institution became enmeshed in speciality and other networks, notably those of Arrhenius and Mittag-Leffler, the two Swedish scientists who were best known internationally at the time. While the general development of disciplines and the standing of scientists in international and national communities heavily influenced the selection process, the cases presented in this book show that the specific choices of specialities, discoveries, and people to be honored were determined by the Swedish participants in the process. The question of how, after some initial uncertainties, the Nobel Prizes became synonymous with the highest achievements in science and culture is also addressed. This detailed study of the birth of what have become science's highest accolades will interest historians and scientists alike.
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• Analysis of native caustic lime
• escape of gases through capillary tubes
• combustion of the diamond
• oxide of silver in ammonia
• action of boracic acid on turmeric
• hydrate of chlorine
• history of the condensation of gases
• new compounds of carbon and hydrogen
• limits of vapourization
• anhydrous sulphate of soda
• sound during the conduct of heat
• table-turning
• relations of gold and other metals to light
• conservation of force.
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This is a facsimile reprint of Faraday's original book published in 1895 by Taylor and Francis, which was a collection of his papers written over a period of 40 years and published in various learned and scientific journals such as "Philosophical Magazine", "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" and "The Journal of the Royal Institution". The book is intended to celebrate the bicentenniel of Faraday's birth in 1791.
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