Dna Doctor, The: Candid Conversations With James D Watson - Softcover

9789812707970: Dna Doctor, The: Candid Conversations With James D Watson

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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.

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Istvan Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry and Head of the George A Olah PhD School at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and member of the Academia Europaea (London). He holds a PhD from Eotvos University of Budapest; a DSc from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and honorary doctorates from Moscow State University, the University of North Carolina, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. His books include The Martians of Science, The Road to Stockholm, the Candid Science book series of interviews with famous scientists, Our Lives (which contains a considerable amount of autobiographical material), Symmetry Through the Eyes of a Chemist, and Symmetry: A Unifying Concept. He and his scientist wife live in Budapest. Their grown children live in the United States.

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Read these conversations to see this bold, courageous and ever necessary thinker at work.

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  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 9812707972
  • ISBN 13 9789812707970
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages234

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