Avoid Boring People. (Lessons from a Life in Science). [Avoid Boring Other People].

WATSON, James D.

ISBN 10: 0375412840 / ISBN 13: 9780375412844

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007

About this Item

First edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by James D. Watson, the Winner of the Nobel Prize and the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA. Green paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. xii, 347 pages. Very fine in fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 17110

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Avoid Boring People. (Lessons from a Life in Science). [Avoid Boring Other People].
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375412840
• ISBN 13: 9780375412844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir
  • Science
  • Signed Books

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.