Nobel dreams
by Gary Taubes · first published 1986
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…was a bit of an egomaniac and obsessed with getting a Nobel prize for himself. For a highly entertaining biography on him, as well as a look into the academic politics of a place like CERN, I recommend "Nobel Dreams" by Gary Taubes.
on “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017” ↗…(http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-...) and "Good Calories, Bad Calories" Before all of that that, he wrote "Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion" and "Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment"
on “The salt controversy” ↗