100 Years Of Nobel Prizes

100 Years of Nobel Prizes provides a detailed statistical analysis of what is required to win a Nobel, why it sometimes takes a long time to collect the Award, and what the prizes have meant to human progress.
After the Nobel Prizes are announced each October, do you ever wonder:
• How many scientists have won two Nobels during their career?
• Could Nobels run in families?
• Does luck ever play a role in a Nobel Award?
• Have any undeserving achievements ever been recognized?
• Have some deserving individuals been passed over?
• What do U.S. President’s Roosevelt and Wilson have in common?
• How many women have won the Nobel Prize in Economics?
• Have Alfred Nobel’s purposes in establishing the awards been met?
• Do some universities have an inside track on winning Nobels?
• Has immigration played a role in awarding the Nobel prize?
• Why have nearly 30% of the Nobel prizes gone to a group representing only about .02% of the world’s population?
Learn the fascinating answers to these and other questions discovered by Baruch A. Shalev, an Israeli geneticist, who began wondering whether one of the principle findings of a lifetime of animal research might also apply to human beings. After his retirement, he selected Nobel prize-winners as a population universe to study. This book is the result of his investigations.