Brian Keating.
Losing the Nodel Prize: a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest prize.
Norton. 2018
Cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of
Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment, Brian Keating
tells the inside story of the mesmerizing quest to unlock
cosmology’s biggest mysteries and the human drama that ensued.
We follow along on a personal journey of revelation and discovery in the
publish-or-perish world of modern science, and learn that the Nobel Prize might
hamper—rather than advance—scientific progress.
Fortunately, Keating offers practical solutions for reform, providing a vision of a scientific
future in which cosmologists may finally be able to see all the way back to the very beginning.