Avoid Boring People. (Lessons from a Life in Science). [Avoid Boring Other People].
by WATSON, James D
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375412840
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412844
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17110-1
- Title
- Avoid Boring People. (Lessons from a Life in Science). [Avoid Boring Other People].
- Author
- WATSON, James D
- Format/Binding
- Green paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375412840
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412844
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2007.
- Pages
- xii, 347 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir; Science;
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