Hi,
Good morning! Herewith resuming the ‘Trainer’s Notes for Success from Siva’ after a prolonged break. Without digging into the reasons (excuses?), let me share with you this week’s TNSS, an excerpt from the book, “The Possible Dream – ten who dared’ by Marthe Gross wherein she describes the stories of 10 people who became “superstars” in their chosen fields. These are the people who dared to dream and decided “to go for the big one” and made it. She describes how they reached the top rank in their fields. One of them was James Dewey Watson, the biologist who became the co-discoverer of structure of DNA and Winner of Nobel Prize in 1962 at the age of 34......
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Jim Watson was born in Chicago in 1928. At school, he was known as one of the brightest and shyest kids in the class. His grades at were so high that he was accepted at the University of Chicago when he was 15 after just 2 years of high school. He received his BS in Biology when he was just nineteen. He completed his PhD from Indiana University at 22. In 1950, soon after his PhD, he was attracted to the research on genes. It was known by then that information inherited by an organism to make what it is – whale or humming bird or mongoose or man – was locked miraculously in the nucleus of the cell, specifically in the nucleic acid. Nucleic acid – deoxyribose nucleic acid, or DNA for short – transmitted the code of life. But how did it function? What was the chemistry involved? How did it pattern? These were the big questions that top scientists were striving to answer around that time.
Jim Watson one day started daydreaming. What if he were to crack the secret of the gene? What if he were to beat all the great biologists to the finish line in the race? Jim Watson of Chicago would become world famous. The Nobel Prize Committee would certainly recognize an achievement like that. The idea was wild and improbable, but it helped keep his spirits up. “I day dreamed about discovering the secret of the gene,” he wrote later “but not once did I have the faintest trace of a respectable idea.”
In the next 3 years, he went through an exciting scientific pursuit that led to the discovery of structure of DNA outpacing and outsmarting many of the then eminent researchers who were also trying to crack the secret of DNA. He along with Francis Crick published an article in British scientific journal Nature in its April 1953 issue in simple language that took only 900 words and occupied a single page. With that they made the single most important biological discovery of the 20th century, and won a Nobel Prize for medicine and Physiology in 1962, as he had hoped when he was still young.
Some of the salient features of Jim Watson that had helped him accomplish such a phenomenal feat at such a young age as understood and noted from the book were given in my blog that can be read at the link given below:
http://value4value.blogspot.in/2012/05/jim-watson-and-his-traits-that-helped.html
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To your SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com
Good morning! Herewith resuming the ‘Trainer’s Notes for Success from Siva’ after a prolonged break. Without digging into the reasons (excuses?), let me share with you this week’s TNSS, an excerpt from the book, “The Possible Dream – ten who dared’ by Marthe Gross wherein she describes the stories of 10 people who became “superstars” in their chosen fields. These are the people who dared to dream and decided “to go for the big one” and made it. She describes how they reached the top rank in their fields. One of them was James Dewey Watson, the biologist who became the co-discoverer of structure of DNA and Winner of Nobel Prize in 1962 at the age of 34......
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Jim Watson was born in Chicago in 1928. At school, he was known as one of the brightest and shyest kids in the class. His grades at were so high that he was accepted at the University of Chicago when he was 15 after just 2 years of high school. He received his BS in Biology when he was just nineteen. He completed his PhD from Indiana University at 22. In 1950, soon after his PhD, he was attracted to the research on genes. It was known by then that information inherited by an organism to make what it is – whale or humming bird or mongoose or man – was locked miraculously in the nucleus of the cell, specifically in the nucleic acid. Nucleic acid – deoxyribose nucleic acid, or DNA for short – transmitted the code of life. But how did it function? What was the chemistry involved? How did it pattern? These were the big questions that top scientists were striving to answer around that time.Jim Watson one day started daydreaming. What if he were to crack the secret of the gene? What if he were to beat all the great biologists to the finish line in the race? Jim Watson of Chicago would become world famous. The Nobel Prize Committee would certainly recognize an achievement like that. The idea was wild and improbable, but it helped keep his spirits up. “I day dreamed about discovering the secret of the gene,” he wrote later “but not once did I have the faintest trace of a respectable idea.”
In the next 3 years, he went through an exciting scientific pursuit that led to the discovery of structure of DNA outpacing and outsmarting many of the then eminent researchers who were also trying to crack the secret of DNA. He along with Francis Crick published an article in British scientific journal Nature in its April 1953 issue in simple language that took only 900 words and occupied a single page. With that they made the single most important biological discovery of the 20th century, and won a Nobel Prize for medicine and Physiology in 1962, as he had hoped when he was still young.
Some of the salient features of Jim Watson that had helped him accomplish such a phenomenal feat at such a young age as understood and noted from the book were given in my blog that can be read at the link given below:
http://value4value.blogspot.in/2012/05/jim-watson-and-his-traits-that-helped.html
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To your SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com
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