J. Craig Venter
Autore di A Life Decoded
Sull'Autore
J. Craig Venter is the founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute.
Opere di J. Craig Venter
Opere correlate
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 801 copie
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Collaboratore — 633 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Venter, John Craig
- Data di nascita
- 1946-10-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- La Jolla, California, USA
- Istruzione
- College of San Mateo
University of California, San Diego (B.S.|Biochemistry|1972)
University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.|Physiology and Pharmacology|1975) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Medal of Science (Biological Sciences ∙ 2008)
Kistler Prize (2008)
ENI award (2008)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 501
- Popolarità
- #49,399
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 5
As a master student in Biomedical Sciences I'd heard about J. Craig Ventor (and especially his contributions to sequencing the human genome) multiple times in class. So, when I saw this book coming up I was immediately interested.
I somehow had always thought that he would be able to communicate about his science in a very interesting and understandable way. I don't know why I had this believe, but this book disappointed me a bit on that account. I was looking for a book that would be a nice way to introduce people with little or no knowledge about but a huge interest in molecular biology to the subject, but I don't think this book would be right for them. It's at once - I believe - far too specialistic for laymen and too simplistic for the people who do know about it.
It was however, for me, still interesting as synthetic biology is a subject I haven't really learned a lot about. About halfway I did start to get a bit annoyed as it became more and more of an 'Oh, look at me and my team we're so amazing' story as he sums up all his successes and publications in Science. The last chapters were a bit weird as he jumps from synthetic biology to teleportation. Not as good as I anticipated but still enjoyable for people with some background information on (molecular) biology...
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!… (altro)