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Avoid Boring People - And other lessons from a life in science (Paperback)
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Avoid Boring People - And other lessons from a life in science (Paperback)
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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 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.
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