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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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ISBN: 0393357392
Author: Keating, Brian
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"Riveting."-ScienceA Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018Cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment, Brian Keating tells the inside story of the mesmerizing quest to unlock cosmologys 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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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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