The Nobel Duel: Two Scientists' 21-Year Race to Win the World's Most Coveted Research Prize is a 1981 book by science journalist Nicholas Wade.

It describes the rivalry between scientists Andrew Schally and Roger Guillemin, whose discoveries in hormone research led to them sharing the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

[1][2] Biochemist John T. Edsall, writing in Isis, wrote "Wade appears to have striven conscientiously to give a fair picture.

The book is of interest both as a study of the tumultuous course of some major scientific advances and as a contribution to the sociology of modern science.

"[6] Pines called it "worlds away" from The Double Helix in presenting the research as a "grim, relentless struggle for fame and glory".