Watson, J: Avoid Boring People
(Sprache: Englisch)
James D. 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...
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James D. 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. The result is both an engaging and original memoir and an insightful compendium of lessons in life for aspiring scientists.
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1. Manners acquired as a child (Chicago's South Side); 2. Manners learned while an undergraduate; 3. Manners picked up in graduate school; 4. Manners followed by the Phage Group; 5. Manners passed on to an apprentice scientist; 6. Manners needed for important science; 7. Manners practiced as an untenured professor; 8. Manners deployed for academic zing; 9. Manners noticed as a dispensable White House advisor; 10. Manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize; 11. Manners demanded by academic ineptitude; 12. Manners behind for readable books; 13. Manners required for academic civility; 14. Manners displayed to hold two jobs; 15. Manners felt reluctantly leaving Harvard; Epilogue
Autoren-Porträt von James D. Watson
In 1953, while working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA. For their discovery they were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Maurice Wilkins. Watson was appointed to the faculty at Harvard University in 1956. In 1968, while retaining his position at Harvard, he became director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). In 1988 he was appointed asassociate director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) to help launch the Human Genome Program. A year later he became the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the NIH. Watson was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1997, and is today Chancellor of CSHL.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James D. Watson
- 368 Seiten, Maße: 16,7 x 24,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192802739
- ISBN-13: 9780192802736
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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It's never dull. The Herald (Glasgow) A lively and provocative book. Financial Times, Books of the Year Scientists will find the book most interesting. Irish Times The story is frank, personal, revealing and sometimes entertaining. Peter Lawrence, Literary Review ...a deliciously detailed account of his life...Watson remains one of the most fascinating scientists of our time, as iconic in some respects as his double helix. Nature
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