Research Catalog

Title

South Africa's Nobel laureates : peace, literature and science / edited by Kader Asmal, David Chidester, Wilmot James.

Publication

Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Asmal, Kader.
• Chidester, David.
• James, Wilmot Godfrey, 1953-

Description

xxx, 289 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Nobel Prizes
• Learning and scholarship > South Africa > History > 20th century
• Nobel Prize winners
• Nobel Prize
• Intellectual life
• Learning and scholarship
• Nobelpreisträger
• South Africa > Intellectual life > 20th century
• South Africa > Biography
• South Africa
• South Africa
• Südafrika <Staat>

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.
• History.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Peace -- Africa and freedom : Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize 1960 -- Apartheid's 'final solution' : Desmond Tutut, Nobel Peace Prize 1984 -- A deed of peace : F.W. De Klerk, Nobel Peace Prize 1993 -- A new age dawning : Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize 1993 -- Part 2. Literature -- Writing and being : Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 -- He and his man : J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 -- Part 3. Science -- From prevalent disease to rare infection : Max Theiler, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951 -- Questions interesting in their own right : Allan M. Cormack, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 -- The order of life : Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982 -- Nature's gift to science : Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002.

ISBN

• 1868422046
• 9781868422043

LCCN

2005423926

OCLC

• ocm58385917
• 58385917
• SCSB-1372930

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library