Product Description: Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of the ultra-elite in science...read more

Product Description: Addresses the realities of and reasons for the peripheral status of women in science. The book compares the productivity, values and perspectives of male and female scientists and explores the structural and cultural barriers to achievement that exist for women professionals.

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