Massimiano Bucchi is Professor of Science and Technology in Society at the University of Trento and former editor of Public Understanding of Science. His most recent books include Newton’s Chicken and, with B. Trench, the Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology.

• 1. How a mistaken obituary led to the most important award in science2. How do you win a Nobel Prize?3. A prize with no borders?: No politics please, we are Swedish (scientists)!4. And the winner is…. not here!: How Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and why he almost never received it.5. How not to win a Nobel Prize: The story of Lise and other prize ghosts6. Does the Prize make them more appealing?: The importance of being a Nobel7. The body of the (laureate) scientistEpilogue - Geniuses, heroes and saints:How the Nobel Prize (re)invented the public image of scienceAcknowledgmentsReferencesAppendix. All the prize winners from 1901 to 2018Index

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Massimiano Bucchi is Professor of Science and Technology in Society at the University of Trento and former editor of Public Understanding of Science. His most recent books include Newton’s Chicken and, with B. Trench, the Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology.

• 1. How a mistaken obituary led to the most important award in science2. How do you win a Nobel Prize?3. A prize with no borders?: No politics please, we are Swedish (scientists)!4. And the winner is…. not here!: How Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and why he almost never received it.5. How not to win a Nobel Prize: The story of Lise and other prize ghosts6. Does the Prize make them more appealing?: The importance of being a Nobel7. The body of the (laureate) scientistEpilogue - Geniuses, heroes and saints:How the Nobel Prize (re)invented the public image of scienceAcknowledgmentsReferencesAppendix. All the prize winners from 1901 to 2018Index

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Massimiano Bucchi is Professor of Science and Technology in Society at the University of Trento and former editor of Public Understanding of Science. His most recent books include Newton’s Chicken and, with B. Trench, the Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology.

• 1. How a mistaken obituary led to the most important award in science2. How do you win a Nobel Prize?3. A prize with no borders?: No politics please, we are Swedish (scientists)!4. And the winner is…. not here!: How Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and why he almost never received it.5. How not to win a Nobel Prize: The story of Lise and other prize ghosts6. Does the Prize make them more appealing?: The importance of being a Nobel7. The body of the (laureate) scientistEpilogue - Geniuses, heroes and saints:How the Nobel Prize (re)invented the public image of scienceAcknowledgmentsReferencesAppendix. All the prize winners from 1901 to 2018Index

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