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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科学精英：美国诺贝尔奖获得者

《科学精英》是关于诺贝尔奖获得者和二十世纪科学中定义明确的分层系统的。它追踪了所有从1907年到1972年获奖的美国获奖者的职业，考察了科学生活各个阶段的功绩和特权之间的复杂相互作用，以及科学界的超级精英的创造。该研究利用了在美国进行过获奖研究的获奖者的传记和书目数据，以及在研究完成时对居住在美国的56名获奖者中的41名进行的详细访谈。祖克曼发现，随着时间的流逝，获奖者将先后获得优势。这些优势导致精英与其他科学家之间在绩效和奖励方面的差距越来越大，