Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Mullis, Kary

ISBN 10: 0679774009 / ISBN 13: 9780679774006

Verlag: Vintage, 2000

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0679774009I4N00

Inhaltsangabe:

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, and always looks for the "money trail" when scientists make announcements.

Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of topics: from global warming to the O. J. Simpson trial, from poisonous spiders to HIV, from scientific method to astrology. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Kary Mullis lives in La Jolla and Anderson Valley, California.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Verlag: Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket