Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Watson, James D.

ISBN 10: 0375412840 / ISBN 13: 9780375412844

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007

Beschreibung

Edition in Fine condition in a like dust-jacket; A personal account of the making of a scientist from James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for having revealed the structure of DNA. Watson offers specific pointers to beginning scientists and also addresses the role and needs of science at large universities; 8vo; 341 pages; TBC. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 70514

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Titel: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in ...

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: First Edition; Third Printing.

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Inhaltsangabe:

A witty scientific memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of DNA describes a life devoted to the pursuit of knowledge, offering valuable lessons about how to get the most out of college, select a career, manage others, keep one's work relevant, how modern universities should change, and more. 30,000 first printing.

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James D. Watson was director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1968 to 1993 and is now its chancellor. He was the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, he has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.