| Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix Contributor(s): Watson, James D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375727159 ISBN-13: 9780375727153 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology - Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics - Science | History |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.16" W x 8.16" (0.66 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher 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. |