• ISBN13: 9788126902781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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• Publication Date: June 21, 2003
• Pages: 152
• Original Price: 295.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 220 grams

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.

Baruch Aba Shalev is an Isareli geneticist. Like many of the Nobel Laureates profiled in this book, he has been involved in multi-national study, research, teaching, and consultation during his distinguished career. After graduation from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he earned a Master’s Degree at the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. at the University of Reading in England. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, most of them dealing with genetic selection in animals. In developing a method of selection under stress to force early maturation, he has been able to better evaluate the genetic capability of the animals. That began a process of wondering whether humans under stress also produce improved genetic products. He chose Nobel laureates as his target population to consider the question and this book is the result of his considerations.
Dr. Shalev was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and served in the Israeli military between 1954 and 1957. During his years in the United States, he became a Senior Supervisor at Goldman’s Egg City in the Los Angeles area—a facility with 3 million laying hens. When he returned to Israel, he became a senior geneticist at the Ministry of Agriculture in Tel Aviv. While in government service and beyond his scientific investigations, Dr. Shalev was in charge of his Division’s first centralized computer unit. He also served as a principal investigator in a US/Israeli Bi-National Agricultural Research and Development project relating to the breeding, nutrition, reproduction, and management of geese; as Israel’s delegate to the European Breeding and Genetics Working Group; as a Food and Agriculture Organization advisor in Rome and Africa; and as a senior advisor to Israel’s poultry industry. He was awarded the Prize of Excellence for outstanding achievements during his government service. As a private consultant, he is currently advising China on waterfowl genetics and production.