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Author Hargittai, István

Title The DNA doctor : candid conversations with James D. Watson / István Hargittai
Published Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Contents First conversation -- Second conversation -- Third conversation -- Appendix 1 : sampler of quotable Watson -- Appendix 2 : Watson through the eyes of others : a sampler -- Appendix 3 : J.D. Bernal's review of The double helix -- Appendix 4 : Watson's foreword to The road to Stockholm
Summary Three in-depth conversations with the Nobel laureate co-discoverer of the double helix and the first director of the Human Genome Project cover a wide range of topics, including progress in science; the scientist's role in modern life; women in science; scientific ethics; terrorism; religion; multiculturalism; and how genetics may improve human lives. Reflections by further illustrious contributors to the scientific revolution and the author's commentaries provide a glimpse into the thinking of scientists who largely determine the progress of humankind in our time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Watson, James D., 1928- -- Interviews
SUBJECT Watson, James D., 1928-
Watson, James D., 1928- fast
Subject Molecular biologists -- United States -- Interviews
Molecular biology.
DNA -- history
Molecular Biology -- Interview
Molecular Biology -- Interview
Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology -- history
molecular biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Molecular Biology.
Molecular biologists
Molecular biology
United States
Genre/Form interviews.
Interviews
Interviews.
Interviews.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007282376
ISBN 9789812770035
9812770038
1281918946
9781281918949
9786611918941
6611918949