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."
"A remarkable alignment of the planets is occurring in 2003: the
50th anniversary of the double helix and the completion of the
sequence of the human genome. As a defining figure in both landmark
events, no other human being on the planet is positioned to write
as authoritatively about all this as Jim Watson. In "DNA: The
Secret of Life" he does so with characteristic clarity, style, and
wit. If you really want to know what happened in the most important
half-century of biology since the world began, read this!"
-Francis Collins, "director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute"
"Unlocking the secret of life was the greatest accomplishment of
science in the 20th century and laid the foundation for medicine in
the 21st century. Over the past 50 years, Jim Watson has been at
the center of this revolution. No one has a broader perspective.
And, no one can tell its story more compellingly. Watson brings
alive the grand ideas, human foibles, and social challenges in a
way will both engage the general public and inspire a new
generation of young scientists."
-Eric Lander, founder and director of the Whitehead Center for
Genome Research
"This is the story of DNA and therefore the story of life, history,
sex (lots of sex!), money, drugs, and still-to-be-revealed secrets.
DNA is quite a molecule-she's been around a long time and played a
lot of roles. At last, she has a truly worthy biographer."
-Mary-Claire King, American Cancer Society Professor, University of
Washington School of Medicine
"Only James Watson combines the verve and authority to take us on
such an exciting, fast-paced journey into the continuing storm of
DNA science. This landmark summary asks where the new biology will
take us, and gives arresting vignettes of major participants in the
DNA revolution. The key experiments and fascinating unknowns are
laid out as plain as day."
-Victor McElheny, author of "Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific
Revolution
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"A remarkable alignment of the planets is occurring in 2003: the
50th anniversary of the double helix and the completion of the
sequence of the human genome. As a defining figure in both landmark
events, no other human being on the planet is positioned to write
as authoritatively about all this as Jim Watson. In "DNA: The
Secret of Life" he does so with characteristic clarity, style, and
wit. If you really want to know what happened in the most important
half-century of biology since the world began, read this!"
-Francis Collins, "director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute"
"Unlocking the secret of life was the greatest accomplishment of
science in the 20th century and laid the foundation for medicine in
the 21st century. Over the past 50 years, Jim Watson has been at
the center of this revolution. No one has a broader perspective.
And, no one can tell its story more compellingly. Watson brings
alive the grand ideas, human foibles, and social challenges in a
way will both engage the general public and inspire a new
generation of young scientists."
-Eric Lander, founder and director of the Whitehead Center for
Genome Research
"This is the story of DNA and therefore the story of life, history,
sex (lots of sex!), money, drugs, and still-to-be-revealed secrets.
DNA is quite a molecule-she's been around a long time and played a
lot of roles. At last, she has a truly worthy biographer."
-Mary-Claire King, American Cancer Society Professor, University of
Washington School of Medicine
"Only James Watson combines the verve and authority to take us on
such an exciting, fast-paced journey into the continuing storm of
DNA science. This landmark summary asks where the new biology will
take us, and gives arresting vignettes of major participants in the
DNA revolution. The key experiments and fascinating unknowns are
laid out as plain as day."
-Victor McElheny, author of "Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific
Revolution
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