Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the
well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It
tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from
1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and
privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation
of the ultra-elite in science.
The study draws on biographical and bibliographical data on
laureates who did their prize-winning research in the United
States, and on detailed interviews with forty-one of the fifty-six
laureates living in the United States at the time the study was
done. Zuckerman finds laureates being successively advantaged as
time passes. These advantages are producing growing disparities
between the elite and other scientists both in performance and in
rewards, which create and maintain a sharply graded stratification
system.
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