Avoid Boring People by James D Watson
James D. Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA - and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way. The result is both an engaging and original memoir and an insightful compendium of lessons in life for aspiring scientists.
It's never dull* The Herald (Glasgow) *
A lively and provocative book. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *
Scientists will find the book most interesting. * Irish Times *
The story is frank, personal, revealing and sometimes entertaining. * Peter Lawrence, Literary Review *
...a deliciously detailed account of his life...Watson remains one of the most fascinating scientists of our time, as iconic in some respects as his double helix. * Nature *
A lively and provocative book. * Financial Times, Books of the Year *
Scientists will find the book most interesting. * Irish Times *
The story is frank, personal, revealing and sometimes entertaining. * Peter Lawrence, Literary Review *
...a deliciously detailed account of his life...Watson remains one of the most fascinating scientists of our time, as iconic in some respects as his double helix. * Nature *
In 1953, while working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA. For their discovery they were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Maurice Wilkins. Watson was appointed to the faculty at Harvard University in 1956. In 1968, while retaining his position at Harvard, he became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). In 1988 he was appointed as associate director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) to help launch the Human Genome Program. A year later he became the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the NIH. Watson was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1997, and is today Chancellor of CSHL.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192802736 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192802739 |
| Title | Avoid Boring People |
| Author | James D Watson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2007-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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