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Editorial: a man and his prizes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2001

TORE FRÄNGSMYR
TORE FRÄNGSMYR
Affiliation:
Uppsala University, Office for History of Science, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: [email protected]
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prizes. On 10 December 1901, Röntgen received the first prize. Since then, some 700 Nobel Laureates have received the same honour. No prize in the world, at least no prize for science, has reached the same level of glory. How did it come to be so?

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Editorial
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European Review , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 385 - 387
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© Academia Europaea 2001