The Road to Stockholm. Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists

According to Hargittai, "Our students, our children, the general public, all of us would benefit from knowing a little more about science and how it comes about because so much in our modern life depends on it" (p xii). We think that The Road to Stockholm goes a long way toward making this goal a reality. The Chemical Educator
'Review from previous edition The history of the Nobel prizes for science, first awarded in 1901, is an absorbing chronicle of perseverance and truimph, rivalry and vanity; Istvan Hargittai tells it with gossipy aplomb and more than 100 interviews with living laureates.'- John Cornwell writing in The Sunday Times