DNA: The Secret of Life **Signed**
by Watson, James D.; Berry, Andrew
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375415467
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415463
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James D. Watson was director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1968 to 1993 and is now its president. He was the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992. 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 for Physiology or Medicine in 1962. Andrew Berry, with a Ph.D. in fruit fly genetics, is a research associate of Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. A writer and teacher, he is the editor of a collection of the writings of the Victorian biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, Infinite Tropics (Verso, 2002). From the Hardcover edition.
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- All-Ways Fiction (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016857
- Title
- DNA: The Secret of Life **Signed**
- Author
- Watson, James D.; Berry, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375415467
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415463
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
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