Beautiful, unread copy of the first edition of this important work by the Nobel-Prize winning Scientist. Signed on a bookplate affixed to the half title. With the holograph dust jacket. 446 pp.

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Title

DNA: The Secret of Life (Signed)

Publisher

Alfred a Knopf Inc, NY

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0375415467

ISBN 13

9780375415463

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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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