The Magic Zone: Sketches of the Nobel Laureates

The present volume introduces the reader to a wide range of information about the men and women who won Nobel
Prizes. Excerpts from their life histories, from their achievements in the sciences and arts, are interspersed with
an array of anecdotes and chance occurrences which make for highly entertaining reading. Between 1901 and
2002, more than seven hundred people were awarded Nobel Prizes. Covering a time span of 102 years, the book
contains more than two hundred well-researched sketches - and the notion that if history is the essence of many
biographies, the biographies of the Nobel laureates alone can throw a prominent light on the twentieth century and
the beginning of the twenty-first.