Avoid Boring People : Lessons From a Life in Science
by Watson, James D
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0375412840
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412844
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. "From a living legend--James D. Watson, who shared the Nobel Prize for revealing the structure of DNA--comes a personal account of the making of a scientist." [from publisher] Includes numerous black and white illustrations. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, small red remainder dot on bottom of book, else a clean unmarked copy.
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
- Great Northern Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11679
- Title
- Avoid Boring People : Lessons From a Life in Science
- Author
- Watson, James D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375412840
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412844
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
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- Biography;
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