World Scientific Connecting Great Minds 逾10 0 种 诺贝尔奖得主著作 及 诺贝尔奖相关图书 我们非常荣幸得以出版超过100种诺贝尔奖得主著作 以及诺贝尔奖相关图书。 我们自1980年代开始与诺贝尔奖得主合作出版高品质 畅销书。一些得主担任我们的编辑顾问、丛书编辑， 并于我们期刊发表综述文章与学术论文。 世界科技与帝国理工学院出版社还邀得其中多位作了公 开演讲。 Philip W Anderson Sir Derek H R Barton Aage Niels Bohr Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Murray Gell-Mann Georges Charpak Nicolaas Bloembergen Baruch S Blumberg Hans A Bethe Aaron J Ciechanover Claude Steven Chu Cohen-Tannoudji Leon N Cooper Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Niels K Jerne Richard Feynman Kenichi Fukui Lawrence R Klein Herbert Kroemer Vitaly L Ginzburg David Gross H Gobind Khorana Rita Levi-Montalcini Harry M Markowitz Karl Alex Müller Sir Nevill F Mott Ben Roy Mottelson 诺贝尔奖相关图书 THE PERIODIC TABLE AND A MISSED NOBEL PRIZES THAT CHANGED MEDICINE NOBEL PRIZE edited by Gilbert Thompson (Imperial College London) by Ulf Lagerkvist & edited by Erling Norrby (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) This book brings together in one volume fifteen Nobel Prize- winning discoveries that have had the greatest impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine during the 20th “This is a fascinating account of how century and up to the present time. Its overall aim is to groundbreaking scientists think and enlighten, entertain and stimulate. work. This is the insider’s view of the process and demands made on the Contents: The Discovery of Insulin (Robert Tattersall) • The experts of the Nobel Foundation who Discovery of the Cure for Pernicious Anaemia, Vitamin B12 assess the originality and significance (A Victor Hoffbrand) • The Discovery of Penicillin (Eric of research.” Sidebottom) • The Introduction of Cardiac Catheterization Professor Sir Aaron Klug, (Tony Seed) • The Discovery of the Structure of DNA (James Nobel Laureate, Scott and Gilbert Thompson) • The Interpretation of the Order of Merit, Genetic Code (John MacDermot and Ellis Kempner) • The Fellow of the Royal Society Discovery of Neuropeptides and Radioimmunoassay of Peptide Hormones (Jaimini Cegla and Stephen Bloom) • The Development of Computer-Assisted Tomography (Adrian M “Lagerkvist, who was a member of the Swedish Academy of K Thomas) • The Discovery of Prostaglandins (Rod Flower) • The Antibody Problem and Sciences and participated in judging nominations for the the Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies (Herman Waldmann and Celia P Milstein) • chemistry prize, concludes ‘It is in the nature of the Nobel Prize The Discovery of the LDL Receptor and Its Role in Cholesterol Metabolism (Gilbert that there will always be a number of candidates who obviously Thompson) • The Invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction and Use of Site-Directed deserve to be rewarded but never get the accolade’. He makes Mutagenesis (Anne K Soutar) • The Discovery of the Pathophysiological Role of Nitric the case that failing to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Oxide in Blood Vessels (Keith M Channon) • The Discovery of Helicobacter pylori (Chris Dmitri Mendeleev for his conception of the Periodic Table of the Hawkey) • The Discovery of RNA Interference — Gene Silencing by Double-Stranded Elements was a gross injustice.” RNA (Richard P Hull and Timothy J Aitman) Professor Emeritus Paul Berg Readership: Students, undergraduates, graduates, professionals and members of the Stanford University School of Medicine general public interested in the impact of Nobel Prize-winning discoveries in medicine. “This book is intended for nonprofessional readers. Focussing 372pp Dec 2011 on the prominent chemist Dmitri Mendeleev it describes how 978-1-84816-825-1 US$118 £78 the Nobel Committee struggled in its selection of the prime can- 978-1-84816-826-8(pbk) US$48 £32 didate to the 1906 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The reasons why Mendeleev, regrettably, never received the prize are presented.” Professor Emeritus Hideki Shirakawa NOBEL PRIZES AND LIFE SCIENCES University of Tsukuba by Erling Norrby (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) In a relatively brief but masterful recounting, the late Professor Ulf “This book can be strongly recommended to historians of Lagerkvist, a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences who science. I hope that I have given enough examples of what it has participated in judging nominations for the chemistry prize, covers to encourage historians of science to read this traces the origins and seminal developments in the field of fascinating and informative book.” chemistry, highlighting the discoveries and personalities of the British Journal for History of Science individuals who transformed the ancient myths of the Greeks and the laws governing the properties and behavior of the elements; “The book focuses on selected topics rather than providing in short, how chemistry became a true science. inventories and this makes it an especially enjoyable read … Norrby generously shared his knowledge and experience with A centerpiece of this historical journey was the triumph by Dmitri us through this book, which I wholeheartedly recommend to Mendeleev who conceived the Periodic Law of the Elements. An all interested in how the Nobel recognition of discoveries and underlying but explicit intent of Lagerkvist’s survey is to address discoverers works.” what he believes was a gross injustice in denying Mendeleev the Structural Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1905 and again in 1906. This book discusses the most important prize in the world of science and gives unique Delving into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ detailed historical insights into how the laureate selection process has developed to secure optimal records concerning the nominations, Lagerkvist reveals the judging choice. It indirectly deals with factors that foster scientific discoveries viz. the role of criteria and the often heated and prejudicial arguments favoring both individuals and institutions and thus provides invaluable insights for researchers, and demeaning the contributions of the competing contenders of institutions and anyone interested in science. those years. Contents: More than a Century of Nobel Prizes; Serendipity and Nobel Prizes; Nobel Readership: Academics in history of chemistry; history of general Prizes and the Emerging Virus Concept; The Only Nobel Prize for a Virus Vaccine: Yellow science; development of science academies; science and society. Fever and Max Theiler; Polio and Nobel Prizes; Unusual Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine; Nobel Prizes and Nucleic Acids: A Drama in Five Acts; Nobel Prizes, Prions 136pp Aug 2012 and Personalities. 978-981-4295-95-6(pbk) US$22 £15 Readership: General. 336pp Sep 2010 978-981-4299-36-7 US$68 £45 978-981-4299-37-4(pbk) US$38 £25 www.icpress.co.uk 3 诺贝尔奖相关图书 SOVIET UNION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NOBEL BANQUETS THE NOBEL PRIZE A Century of Culinary History (1901–2001) by Abram M Blokh (Russian Academy of Sciences) by Ulrica Söderlind (Stockholm University) Translated from the Swedish by Michael Knight The result of meticulous research by Professor Abram Blokh, this book presents “This specialized historical narrative tracing the evolu- facts, documents, thoughts and comments tion of the Nobel banquet and its menus will delight on the system of the Nobel Prize awards to food historians, scientists, chefs, and trivia buffs alike.” Russian and Soviet scientists. It provides a Choice comprehensive overview of the relationship between the ideas expressed by the Nobel The Nobel Banquets is not about Alfred Nobel’s personal Foundation and those expressed by the dining habits; it is about his “gift to mankind” — the five autocratic and totalitarian regimes in Russia original Nobel Prizes and the festivities that are arranged and the ex-Soviet Union during the 20th every year to celebrate them. century who had the same attitude of revulsion toward the intellectual and There is hardly any other banquet in the world that is as humanistic values represented by the Nobel famous as the Nobel banquet which many would give a Prizes. fortune to attend. It is held on December 10 in Stockholm every year. Countless articles and books have been written describing what the To do his research, the author had access to the declassified documents guests eat and drink, the table decorations and the serving ceremonies, the placing in the archives of the Nobel Foundation for many years. Also included lists and of course the Nobel laureates themselves. in the book are new materials obtained and developed by the author after the publication of the first two editions (in Russian). This additional This comprehensive book presents not only all the known facts about the Nobel information is from the archives of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, banquet menus but also many unknown details, both about the Nobel banquets the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Soviet Writers’ Union et al. in themselves and about the traditional banquets held at the Royal Court by the King Moscow and St Petersburg. These documents shed new light on the and Queen of Sweden on December 11 in honour of the laureates. The Nobel difficulties encountered during the attempts to integrate Russian and Banquets contains many photographs. It is a goldmine for gourmets and for anyone Soviet science into the world’s intellectual community. interested in knowing more about all the effort that goes into these fabulous festivities. Readership: Historians, scientists, academics and students. Readership: General. 900pp Oct 2012 340pp May 2010 978-981-4277-97-6 US$89 £59 978-981-4313-11-7 US$78 £51 978-981-4317-97-9(pbk) US$28 £18 NOBEL LAUREATES IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY AND INTEGRITY THE ENIGMA OF FERMENT Voices