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A unique photographic record of all living Nobel laureates In this handsome coffee-table book, photographer Peter Badge captures the likeness of every living Nobel laureate in a lasting black-and-white image -- more than 300 striking portraits in all. Brief biographical sketches accompanying the large-scale photographs pay homage to each laureate's singular contribution to science, literature or world peace. Bringing readers face-to-face with Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama, James Watson, Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, Toni Morrison, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Linda Buck, and Paul Samuelson among many others, NOBELS offers an intimate and compelling look at well-known honorees as well as lesser-known recipients. A fascinating word/image tableau.
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From Alexei Abrikosov, the Russian-born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of condensed matter physics, to Rolf M. Zinkernagel, the Swiss immunologist who won for helping to discover the restriction of major histocompatibility complex antigens, this book presents 305 black and white photographic portraits of Nobel Prize winners in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics, peace, and literature. The full-page photographs are accompanied, on facing pages, by career summaries and descriptions, usually, of the reasons the individual was awarded the Nobel Prize. Among the well-known figures appearing here are former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez, economist Kenneth Arrow, novelist Saul Bellow, former US president Jimmy Carter, novelist J. M. Coetzee, the Dalai Lama, and former US Secretary of State, as well as many others who are certainly well known in their respective fields, perhaps not least because they won the Nobel Prize. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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