Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Mullis, Kary

ISBN 10: 0679442553 / ISBN 13: 9780679442554

Published by Pantheon, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998

About this Item

First edition, first printing with full number line present. Brief inscription to Marc Milstein (Dr.)and signed by Kary Mullis on title page. Two gift inscriptions to back endpaper from parents of gift recipient. Light rubbing, scuffing and edge wear to mylar protected dust jacket. Trace soil to text edges. Very light crimping to head and foot of spine. Otherwise tight, clean, unmarked interior. NO remainder marks. Shipping confirmed!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
• Publisher: Pantheon, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679442553
• ISBN 13: 9780679442554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir
  • Biography
  • Science

About this title

Synopsis

Here are the outrageous ideas and extraordinary adventures of the world's most eccentric and outspoken Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, Kary Mullis has frequently been at odds with the scientific establishment. Legendary for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which redefined the world of DNA and genetics, Mullis is also an accomplished surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity who refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, he is brilliant, funny, provocative, and charismatic.

In Dancing Naked in the Mind Field Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of subjects: from the scientific method to parapsychology, from poisonous spiders to the HIV virus and AIDS, from global warming to astrology, from the O. J. Simpson trial to how you can turn a light bulb on with your mind. A multidimensional playland of ideas, this book challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

About the Author

Kary Mullis was born in North Carolina in 1944. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1973 from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1993 Dr. Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize and the Japan Prize for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). He lives in La Jolla and Anderson Valley, California, with his wife, Nancy.