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Avoid Boring People 'ames 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 almost 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 engagingly eccentric memoir and an insightful compendium of lessons in life for aspiring scientists... Full description
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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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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)
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0375412840
- ISBN 13 9780375412844
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages347
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