Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates: An Illustrated Biographical History, 1901–2001 (Centennial Edition) History of Medicine “a thrilling and very personal

“a thrilling and very personal history that reads like a novel

Winner of the 2007 Ferguson Prize and 2009 Thomas Jefferson Prize

"are less thought of than the machinery: the latter is frequently examined to ascertain its capabilities—the former is scarcely ever

“Carleton Chapman (and his ever-supportive wife) devoted ten arduous years to mastering the mountains of Billing’s work and to appreciating the alpine personality that defined the life of John Shaw Billings

and he became the moving force behind the hospital committee's effort to replace and disperse the hotel-Dieu

Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates: An Illustrated Biographical History, 1901–2001 (Centennial Edition) History of Medicine “a thrilling and very personalSecond printing with minor additions Irwin Abrams (1914 2010). March 2012, 368pp., paperback, illus. The centennial edition of the book first published in 1988, now extensively revised and updated to include all the recent recipients, concluding with the award to Kofi Annan and the United Nations in 2001. Part One deals with Alfred Nobel and the establishment of the prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the how the prize was transformed from Nobels