The Controversial History of The Nobel Prize - Prof. Robert Marc Friedman - #62
Robert Marc Friedman is a historian of science and playwright, professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, and one of the first scholars to work in the secret Nobel Prize archives. Born in the United States and now a Norwegian citizen, he studied physics, meteorology and theater at New York University, earned his PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins, and taught at the University of California, San Diego before moving to Oslo.
When the Nobel Foundation opened its files to researchers, he dug into the committee reports, private letters and diaries behind the physics and chemistry…
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