Avoid Boring People
And other lessons from a life in science
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 October 2007
- ISBN 9780192802736
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 241x162x34 mm
- Weight 661 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
`ames 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 almost 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 engagingly eccentric memoir and an insightful compendium of lessons in life for aspiring scientists. Watson's 'manners' range from those he learnt bird-watching with his father during the Great Depression ('Avoid fighting bigger boys and dogs' and 'Find a young hero to emulate') to the manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize ('Have friends close to those who rule'). He evokes his time as a graduate student in the 1940s ('Hire spunky lab helpers'); the excitement of working in DNA for the first time as well as having his first dates; his time working as a White House advisor; and at Harvard in the '70s.
Avoid Boring People is a quirky, original, wise, and infuriatingly un-put-downable blend of candid anecdotes and revealing insights into the life of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century.
It's never dull.
Table of Contents:
Manners acquired as a child (Chicago's South Side)
Manners learned while an undergraduate
Manners picked up in graduate school
Manners followed by the Phage Group
Manners passed on to an apprentice scientist
Manners needed for important science
Manners practiced as an untenured professor
Manners deployed for academic zing
Manners noticed as a dispensable White House advisor
Manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize
Manners demanded by academic ineptitude
Manners behind for readable books
Manners required for academic civility
Manners displayed to hold two jobs
Manners felt reluctantly leaving Harvard
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