[Bioundgrd] Fwd: mini-course on History of Nobel Prizes

[Stuart Dietz]

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>Historical Aspects of the Nobel Prizes
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>A 4-session mini-course offered by Dr. Svante Lindqvist,
>Director of the Nobel Museum (Stockholm)
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>Co-sponsored by the Dibner Institute and the STS Program at MIT
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>Tuesdays:   October  7,  14,  21,  &  28,  2003
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>7:00-9:00 p.m.
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>Room E51-275, MIT
>(2 Amherst Street, Kendall Sq., Cambridge)
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>Interested people may sign up for the whole series or individual 
>sessions.  A packet of readings will be available in the STS Office 
>(E51-185), as well as the book "Cultures of Creativity: The 
>Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize."   Please contact Judy 
>Spitzer (jspitzer at mit.edu) if you wish to attend.
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>Since 1901, a total of 696 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in 
>Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. 
>Including the Economics Prize, instituted in 1968, the total number 
>is now (September 2003) 747 Prizes awarded by "the Nobel System." 
>In early October this year (as in any year) a new dozen or so 
>Laureates will be added to this list.   This seminar will explore 
>some aspects of the centennial history of the Nobel Prize.  Studied 
>over time, the Nobel Prize raises a number of key questions such as 
>the international/national character of science, the means of 
>assessing the merit of a scientific discovery, and the usefulness of 
>the Nobel Prize as a S & T indicator for science policy decisions. 
>In addition, this seminar will examine the characteristics of the 
>individuals and of the milieus that have produced work honored with 
>what has been called "the most prestigious prize in the world."
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>Seminar 1   --  Tuesday, October 7, 2003
>The Nobel Prize as a Mirror of 20th-Century Science and Culture
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>Seminar 2   --  Tuesday, October 14
>The Nobel Prize as a S & T Indicator: A Brueg(h)elesque Alternative
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>Seminar 3   --  Tuesday, October 21
>No Prize for Technology: Alfred Nobel's Views on Science and Technology
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>Seminar 4   --  Tuesday, October 28
>How to Win the Nobel Prize: A Short Introduction
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>Professor Svante Lindqvist, a distinguished historian of science and 
>technology, has been influential in the development of the 
>discipline of history of technology in Europe.  In 1998 he was 
>chosen as the first Director of the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 
>Sweden.  He has a M.Sc.Eng. (Physics) from the Royal Institute of 
>Technology (Stockholm), a Ph.D. in History of Science and Ideas from 
>Uppsala University, and was professor of history of technology at 
>the Royal Institute of Technology 1989-1997 and Chairman of its 
>Department for History of Science and Technology.  He is a member of 
>the Kuratorium and the Wissenschaflichen Beirats of the Deutsches 
>Museum, Munich, and of the Corporation Visiting Committee for the 
>Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  During the 
>period 1991-99 he was on the Advisory Committee for the history 
>project at the European Space Agency (ESA), Paris.  Professor 
>Lindqvist is a member of three Royal Swedish Academies -- the 
>Academy of Engineering Sciences; the Academy of Sciences; and the 
>Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.  He has published 
>extensively in the history of science and technology, and among his 
>publications are two edited volumes:  Center on the Periphery: 
>Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics (1993) and 
>Museums of Modern Science (2000).
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Stuart Dietz
Biology Education Office, Rm. 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139

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