Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Watson, James D.

ISBN 10: 0375412840 ISBN 13: 9780375412844

Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

Language: English

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Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Publisher

Alfred a Knopf Inc

Publication Date

2007

Language

English

ISBN 10

0375412840

ISBN 13

9780375412844

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Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

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Fine

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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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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.

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