Prize Fight : The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science

from Shadow123

This book delivers on what it promises - stories about scientists in bitter fights about who should receive credit for work that is similar (and, in some cases, exactly the same). This is not meant to be a "behind the scenes" look at how research is done, but rather it is an attempt to humanize s...

from samlives2

Prize Fight isn't so much an account of competition in science in general as a history of disputes over credit and priority in the medical field. The majority of the book consists of two stories (the discovery of streptomycin to treat tuberculosis and the invention of the MRI) which go into lots ...

from kidzdoc

This was a good exploration of rivalries in science, and how they can adversely impact the scientific process by encouraging researchers to not cooperate with each other. I was particularly interested in the Selman Waksman controversy, and this was covered quite well.

from novelust

This was a very interesting book because instead of focusing on the research and the science being conducted, it provided a view on the lives of the scientists. Where most books skim over how the science affects the lives of those doing the research, this book provided a view of the human qualiti...

from cweller

Very interesting look at the disputes over credit for scientific discoveries. Meyers focuses on two Nobel prize disputes in the field of medicine and who gets the credit and who is overlooked.