Scientific Elite

Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of the ultra-elite in science.
The study draws on biographical and bibliographical data on laureates who did their prize-winning research in the United States, and on detailed interviews with forty-one of the fifty-six laureates living in the United States at the time the study was done. Zuckerman finds laureates being successively advantaged as time passes. These advantages are producing growing disparities between the elite and other scientists both in performance and in rewards, which create and maintain a sharply graded stratification system.

Harriet Zuckerman is vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and professor emerita of sociology at Columbia University.

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface and Acknowledgments
Nobel Laureates and Scientific Elites	p. 1
The Sociology of the Nobel Prize	p. 16
The Social Origins of Laureates	p. 59
Masters and Apprentices in Science	p. 96
Moving into the Scientific Elite	p. 144
The Prize-Winning Research	p. 163
After the Prize	p. 208
The Nobel Prize and the Accumulation of Advantage in Science	p. 243
Appendix A Interviewing an Ultra-elite	p. 256
Appendix B Nobel Laureates in Science, 1901-76	p. 282
Appendix C Prize-Winning Research: Specialty and Year of Award	p. 292
Appendix D Official Occupants of the Forty-first Chair: "Honorable Mentions" for Nobel Prizes	p. 296
Appendix E Age-Specific Annual Rates of Productivity of Laureates and a Matched Sample of Scientists Who Survived to Each Age	p. 302
Bibliography	p. 304
Index of Names	p. 327
Index of Subjects	p. 332
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