Avoid Boring People : And Other Lessons from a Life in Science

Watson, James D.

ISBN 10: 0192802739 / ISBN 13: 9780192802736

Published by OUP Oxford, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Avoid Boring People : And Other Lessons from a Life in Science
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192802739
• ISBN 13: 9780192802736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 as associate 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.