Avoid boring people : lessons from a life in science
"James D. Watson looks back on his remarkable scientific career from his school days to the day he left Harvard almost thirty-five years later, celebrated worldwide as co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. The result is an engaging memoir full of candid observations of the world of science, neatly distilled into amusing and inspiring lessons at the end of each chapter. The book is, in Watson's own words, 'an object lesson, if not quite an exemplary history of the making of a scientist'." "Watsons remembered lessons range from those he learnt growing up on Chicago's South Side during the Great Depression ('Avoid fighting bigger boys or dogs') to the manners appropriate for a Nobel Prizewinner ('Buy, don't rent, a suit of tails'). He evokes university life as a young researcher in the 1940s ('Hire spunky lab helpers'); the excitement of getting close to the mystery of DNA for the first time ('Choose an objective apparently ahead of its time'); and political wrangles of both the Harvard and White House variety." "Avoid Boring People is an original and infuriatingly un-put-downable narrative of the scientific life, peppered with anecdote and insight; an intriguing personal account by one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century."--Jacket
Biography
347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780192802736, 0192802739
80331733
1. Manners acquired as a child (Chicago's South Side) ; 2. Manners learned while an undergraduate ; 3. Manners picked up in graduate school ; 4. Manners followed by the Phage Group ; 5. Manners passed on to an apprentice scientist ; 6. Manners needed for important science ; 7. Manners practiced as an untenured professor ; 8. Manners deployed for academic zing ; 9. Manners noticed as a dispensable White House advisor ; 10. Manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize ; 11. Manners demanded by academic ineptitude ; 12. Manners behind for readable books ; 13. Manners required for academic civility ; 14. Manners displayed to hold two jobs ; 15. Manners felt reluctantly leaving Harvard ; Epilogue
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Hace 14 years días
Andrea
Quick- do you read this title as "avoid people who you find boring" or "avoid the act yourself of making others feel bored?" It turns out Watson meant it both ways (as he would have had to... any decent scientist would not leave such obvious ambiguit…
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Hace 12 years días
Victor
Too many facts in a book too small. Double Helix by James Watson is one of my most loved books about doing science, so I anticipated a very interesting reading about Watson's life from childhood until leaving Harvard in the 70's. But this memoir is a…
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Hace 14 years días
Batesharbuck
What an egotistical person. I kept reading, waiting for the light bulb to go on for him as to why so many people didn't care for him, but it never did. Plus, any man who is always looking for a cute young blond, even into his 40's, is just creepy.
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