A detailed, frank, egocentric and instructive autobiography of one of the great molecular biologists of our time, one of the authors of the discovery of the DNA double helix, James Watson. An excellent example of a book that faithfully reflects its author, and a translation that accurately conveys the meaning and intonation of the original.
A detailed, frank, egocentric and instructive autobiography of one of the great molecular biologists of our time, one of the authors of the discovery of the DNA double helix, James Watson. An excellent example of a book that faithfully reflects its author, and a translation that accurately conveys the meaning and intonation of the original. Even for a polysemantic English title, an excellent equivalent was found: you should avoid both other people’s tediousness and your own.
Each of the 15 chapters, monotonously, but at the same time playfully named «Skills …» (learned, acquired, received, in demand and all sorts of others), ends with «lessons learned» that the Nobel laureate learned from the events of his life. Undoubtedly, any young person planning (or already making) a career as a researcher will read the “lessons of a life lived in science” (and what a life!) with keen interest and benefit for himself. A valuable feature of this narrative is also that, along with the delight of knowledge, for which it is worth devoting a life to science, this book clearly reflected the risks that this occupation is fraught with: intense competition and difficult relationships with colleagues, some paucity of personal life and dependence on many incidental circumstances.
Astrel: CORPUS, 464 p.