The politics of excellence Book

	Preface
	Author's Note and Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Legendary Excellence	1
Pt. I	Permanent Battles will Surely be Waged for Every Prize	11
1	The Stupidest Use of a Bequest That I Can Imagine!	13
2	Coming Apart at the Seams	26
3	Sympathy for an Area Closely Connected with My Own Specialty	40
4	Each Nobel Prize Can Be Likened to a Swedish Flag	54
Pt. II	Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences ... Seen Nothing, Heard Nothing and Understood Nothing?	69
5	Should the Nobel Prize Be Awarded in Wartime?	71
6	While the Sores Are Still Dripping Blood!	93
Pt. III	Small Popes in Uppsala	117
7	Einstein Must Never Get a Nobel Prize	119
8	To Sit on a Nobel Committee Is Like Sitting on Quicksand	141
9	Clamor in the Academy	163
Pt. IV	Don't Shoot the Piano Player, He's Doing the Best He Can	177
10	It Can Happen That Pure Pettiness Enters	179
11	One Ought to Think the Matter Over Twice	190
Pt. V	Scandalous Traffic	211
12	Dazzling Dialects	213
13	Completely Lacking an Unambiguous, Objective Standard	225
14	The Knights Templar	251
	Further Reflections	267
	App. A	279
	App. B	284
	App. C	286
	Notes	289
	Index	361