Brian Keating
Forfatter af Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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Brian Keating is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Sa Diego; a Fellow of the American Physical Society; and the director of the Simons Observatory. He lives with his family in La Jolla, California.
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This was an interesting book overall about tea and its varieties around the world, though could be a little dry at times. It was also more focused on the culture and tradition of teas than the science, and those things were very interesting. I could, however, see this book being less-than-ideal for readers who pick up the book in hopes of it having a more scientific approach.
Half good. I really enjoyed the science parts, the story of cosmology up to the present day. Keating does a good job explaining the theoretical problems and how they were solved, with Copernican questions and dust interference being central themes.
I did not enjoy the parts on the Nobel prize. The author is wildly obsessed with the Nobel prize; he himself says that he "lusts" over it. This is utterly bizarre preoccupation, and it seems to be extremely unhealthy and terrible for his science and scientific credibility. No wonder his BICEP2 collaboration is now infamous for prematurely announcing results with astoundingly poor judgement. According to Keating, it was all about winning the Nobel; and everything in the paper from the title on was also part of a Nobel-winning strategy.
Stranger, Keating assumes that everyone else cares just as much as he does for the Nobel—which is completely ridiculous. Scientists care about… science. Until reading this book, I would have assumed that *no* physicist would orient his career around the 1 in ~10,000 (?) chance of winning a prize eventually (before dying). It seems absurd on its face. Keating's ideas for reforming the prize (and his crazy belief that this would somehow fix science) are equally absurd.… (mere)
I did not enjoy the parts on the Nobel prize. The author is wildly obsessed with the Nobel prize; he himself says that he "lusts" over it. This is utterly bizarre preoccupation, and it seems to be extremely unhealthy and terrible for his science and scientific credibility. No wonder his BICEP2 collaboration is now infamous for prematurely announcing results with astoundingly poor judgement. According to Keating, it was all about winning the Nobel; and everything in the paper from the title on was also part of a Nobel-winning strategy.
Stranger, Keating assumes that everyone else cares just as much as he does for the Nobel—which is completely ridiculous. Scientists care about… science. Until reading this book, I would have assumed that *no* physicist would orient his career around the 1 in ~10,000 (?) chance of winning a prize eventually (before dying). It seems absurd on its face. Keating's ideas for reforming the prize (and his crazy belief that this would somehow fix science) are equally absurd.… (mere)
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- Værker
- 9
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- 155
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- #135,097
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- 3.7
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- 2
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- 18