James Watson - AVOID BORING PEOPLE - Lessons from a Life in Science

Rachel Glaeser: 100

From the photo collection of Russell H. Hart, Jr., West Lafayette, Indiana. Photo taken by Russell H. Hart, Sr., deceased: 12

Harvard University Archives: 219,321

National Library of Medicine: 298

© The Nobel Foundation 1962:188

Richard T. Payne: 32

Rockefeller Archive Center: 108

© Rick Stafford: 209

University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication: 13

James D. Watson: 126, 140, 146, 214, 265, 329

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

The text of this book was set in Minion, a typeface produced by the Adobe Corporation specifically for the Macintosh personal computer, and released in 1990. Designed by Robert Slimbach, Minion combines the classic characteristics of old-style faces with the full complement of weights required for modern typesetting.

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Copyright © 2007 James D. Watson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Watson, James D., 1928—

Avoid boring people: and other lessons from a life in science / by James D. Watson.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-48179-5

1. Watson, James D.—Biography. 2. Molecular

biologists—United States—Biography. 3. Scientists—

United States—Biography. I. Title.

QH3.w34.A3 2007

572.8092—dc22

[B] 2007015675

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