Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

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Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science - Hardcover

Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science - Hardcover

by James D. Watson
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by James D. Watson (Author)

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 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA - and considers the lessons he has learnt along the way.

Number of Pages: 362
Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: December 03, 2011
ISBN9780192802736
Author James D. Watson
PublisherOUP Oxford
GenreBiography
FormatHardcover
PublishedDecember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages362
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About James D. Watson

James D. Watson was director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1968 to 1993 and is now its chancellor emeritus. 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 Copley Medal of the Royal Society and is a Knight of the British Empire (KBE). He has also 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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