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

Watson, James D.

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ISBN 10: 0375412840 ISBN 13: 9780375412844

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

Riassunto

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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“a deliciously detailed account of his life both in and out of science... insightful, useful and on target about science, competition, leadership, teaching and academic success...His remarkable recall of events...gives the reader the feeling of being there...full of insight into Watson and into a life in science...He is at all times blatantly but entertainingly honest about his likes and dislikes...Watson remains one of the most fascinating scientists of our time, as iconic in some respects ash is double helix.”
-- Huntington F. Willard, Nature

“the ne plus ultra of gadflies, James D. Watson...from his near-octogenarian heights, he passes on what he can to young scientists coming up and to the rest of us as well...Particularly entertaining”
-- Sara Lippincott, Los Angeles Times

“Among James Watson’s gifts is the flying gibe...those who can ignore Watson’s latest gaffe will not be bored.”
-- Brenda Maddox, The London Times

“James Watson is both a scientific genius and a larger-than-life personality...If you want to learn how science gets done in the real world, with all its competitiveness, personal rivalries, collaborations, and pure persistence, Watson makes for a wonderful guide...readers get an entertaining front-row seat on this glitzy world that runs on brains, gossip, and (sometimes) backbiting...The science contained in Avoid Boring People is explained in lucid prose [and] many of Watson’s practical ‘lessons’ will surely help academics of any discipline.”
--Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe

"Aspiring Nobel laureates, pay attention. The road to the prize is laid out for you here. A book to be highlighted and handed down."
--Seed Magazine

"Vintage Watson: brash, bumptious, brilliant--and never boring."
--Kirkus

"Watson proves as engaging as ever."
--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist

"Entertaining and historically revealing."
--Carl Zimmer, Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375412840
• ISBN 13: 9780375412844
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 347