DNA: THE SECRET OF LIFE [Signed]

Watson, James D.

ISBN 10: 0375415467 ISBN 13: 9780375415463

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003

Language: English

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Octavo, 446 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with blue and white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$39.95". Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Signed by Watson on title page. Shelved Case 10. 1396635. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Title

DNA: THE SECRET OF LIFE [Signed]

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0375415467

ISBN 13

9780375415463

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition, First Printing.

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A history of the genetic revolution, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of DNA's molecular structure breakthrough, presents coverage of the double helix, the mapping of the human genome, molecular dynamics, and the potential of genetics technology. 150,000 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 president. 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 for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.

Andrew Berry, with a Ph.D. in fruit fly genetics, is a research associate of Harvard University�s Museum of Comparative Zoology. A writer and teacher, he is the editor of a collection of the writings of the Victorian biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, Infinite Tropics (Verso, 2002).

Andrew Berry is a research associate of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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