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Avoid Boring People

Hardcover • 2007 • English

Avoid Boring People

By James D. Watson

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About the book

'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 Depres...Show more

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ISBN

9780192802736

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Avoid Boring People

Format

Hardcover

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