A review by briles34
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor by Brian Keating

5.0

This was a wonderful book, a vivid, personable, and accessible description of the scientific process, and a thought-provoking critique of the Nobel. I really appreciate the author's explanations of scientific concepts (one of the reasons I read it was to improve my own writing about astronomy for the public!) and the multiple story threads that are woven together into a portrait of not only the author and his quest for the prize, but also of modern astronomy and the scientific landscape.

Really, I was feeling the emotion by the end of it, which means this is more than just any old nonfiction book of facts. Great book!