Description: In the years following his and Francis Crick's towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles in the field of love and his heady inquiries in the field of science. He also reflects with touching candor on some of science's other titans, from fellow Nobelists Linus Pauling and the incorrigible Richard Feynman to Russian physicist George Gamow, who loved whiskey, limericks, and card tricks as much as he did molecules and genes. What emerges is a refreshingly human portrait of a group of geniuses and a candid, often surprising account of how science is done. James D. Watson is president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. 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 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1962. From the Hardcover edition.
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EAN: 9780375727153
UPC: 9780375727153
ISBN: 9780375727153
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Book Title: Genes, Girls, and Gamow : after the Double Helix
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Science & Technology
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Author: James D. Watson
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
