Description:
The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century. Organized chronologically by prize, each extensive article contains in-depth information on the laureate's life and career as well as a selected list of his or her publications and biographical resources on the individual. A concise commentary explains why the laureate received the award and summarizes the individual's other important achievements. This completely updated edition also contains a history of the prize. Four indexes distinguish this title from similar biographical references and enable researchers to search by name, education, nationality or citizenship, and religion.
Brief description:
LOUISE S. SHERBY is Associate Dean and Chief Librarian at Hunter College in New York City. Her articles have appeared in College & Research Libraries News, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and The Reference Librarian. She also is the author of chapters in Essays From the New England Academic Librarians' Writing Seminar, The Basic Business Library: Core Resources, and Library Education and Leadership. She is a co-editor of P.G. Wodehouse: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Checklist and was an Associate Editor for the previous editions of Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners.
Review Quotes: "As a ready-reference work, the book is very useful. It contains more information than can be found in an almanac, and is small enough to be kept at the reference desk."-E-Streams