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Article: The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige. (Turkish).
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- World Literature Today
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- June 22, 2001
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Burton Feldman The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige New York. Arcade. 2000 xi + 489 pages + 8 plates $29.75. ISBN 1-55970-537-X
THE NOBEL PRIZE, that renowned, slightly tarnished icon of scientific and literary genius, celebrated its hundredth birthday in December 2000. Prizes had been awarded in the usual fields: literature, the "hard" sciences -- physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine -- peacemaking, and economics. But Burton Feldman's impressive, scrupulously documented volume, the first complete overview of the Nobel, goes far beyond a simple factual inventory. Written with a grace, agility, and wit all too rare in many academic ...