AVOID BORING PEOPLE Lessons from a Life in Science SIGNED

James D. Watson

ISBN 10: 0375412840 / ISBN 13: 9780375412844

Editore: Knopf, New York, 2007

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Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Personalized by author on FEP. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; 368 pages; Signed by Author.

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• Titolo: AVOID BORING PEOPLE Lessons from a Life in Science SIGNED
• Editore: Knopf, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375412840
• ISBN 13: 9780375412844
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition; Fifth Printing.
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Literature and Fiction
  • Signed Books

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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.

Informazioni sull?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.