Nobel race. The story of cosmology, ambitions and the highest scientific award

In his sensational book, Brian Kint, the cosmologist and developer of the experiment on the study of the relict radiation of BICEP, tells the insider history of the exciting discovery made during the BICEP2 program, and about the followed scientific drama. Scientific excitement and the desire to unravel the secret of the birth of the Universe lead the author to different corners of the globe-from Rhizhnod to the South Pole, from California to Chile, and to this journey filled with personal revelations and deep insights, he invites the reader. King draws a vivid picture of the world of modern science with its fierce competition and frequent disappointments. He provocatively claims that the Nobel Prize, instead of contributing to scientific progress, sometimes turns out to be an obstacle, encouraging competition and greed in the scientific environment, forcing unreasonably rushing with discoveries and slowing down truly bold scientific innovations. The thoughtfully rethought intentions of Alfred Nobel, the whale offers practical solutions to reform the prize and their vision of the scientific future, in which cosmologists will finally be able to look at the beginning of time