How to win a Nobel, the most famous prize in Science

Presentation by Michele Lanzinger, director of the MUSE, and Lisa Orlandi, La Piccola Libreria. Readings by Ugo Baldessari. 

On Tuesday 17 October at 18.00 at the MUSE, Massimiano Bucchi will tell us the story/stories about the Nobel Prize: the social role of science in the short century, the most singular events, controversies and conflicts related to the most prestigious scientific prize in the world.

Professor Bucchi's recount is careful: being a sociologist, he ponders on the public image of science, on its connections with society, politics and culture, and on its changes from the 20th century onwards.

His book, Come vincere un Nobel. Il premio più famoso della scienza (How to win a Nobel, the most famous prize in Science, Einaudi, 2017), is the result of a twenty-year research in the historical archives of the Nobel Prizes.

THE AUTHOR 

Massimiano Bucchi (Ph.D. Social and Political Science, European University Institute, 1997) is Full Professor of Sociology of Science and Communication, Science and Technology at the University of Trento, Italy.

He has published several books, including Science and the media (London and New York, Routledge, 1998), Science in society. An Introduction to Social Studies of Science (London and New York, Routledge, 2004), Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology (with B. Trench, London and New York, Routledge, 2008), Beyond Technocracy. Citizens, Politics, Technoscience (New York, Springer, 2009) and essays in international journals such as History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Nature, New Genetics and Society, Science and Public Understanding of Science.

He has served as advisor and evaluator for several research and policy bodies, including the US National Science Foundation, the Royal Society, the European Commission and the European Food Safety Auhority.

He has carried out research and given seminars at several international institutions, such as the Royal Society, London School of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Royal Academy of Sciences Sweden, Science University Tokyo, Rikken Institute, American Association for the Advancement of Science and received several recognitions for his work, including the Mullins Prize awarded by the Society for Social Studies of Science (1997) the Merck-Serono special jury award for science books (2007), the international Calabria Prize for science books (2011).

He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Public Understanding of Science and has chaired the international scientific committee organizing the 2012 World Conference on Public Communication of Science in Technology in Florence.

He regularly contributes to newspapers Repubblica, La Stampa-TuttoScienze e Nòva-Il Sole 24 Ore. (Source: www.unitn.it)

Organization by La Piccola Libreria and MUSE, Museo delle Scienze.