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Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

By Kary Mullis

By Kary Mullis

By Kary Mullis

By Kary Mullis

Paperback $16.95

Jan 04, 2000 | 240 Pages

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    About Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

    Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world’s most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, and always looks for the "money trail" when scientists make announcements.

    Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of topics: from global warming to the O. J. Simpson trial, from poisonous spiders to HIV, from scientific method to astrology. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

    About Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

    Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world’s most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, and always looks for the "money trail" when scientists make announcements.

    Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of topics: from global warming to the O. J. Simpson trial, from poisonous spiders to HIV, from scientific method to astrology. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.

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    About Kary Mullis

    Kary Mullis was born in North Carolina in 1944. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1973 from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1993… More about Kary Mullis

    About Kary Mullis

    Kary Mullis was born in North Carolina in 1944. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1973 from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1993… More about Kary Mullis

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Science

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 04, 2000 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679774006

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Science

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 17, 2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780307772787

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    Praise

    “Delightful . . . joyous . . . an autobiography of the nervous system of an extraordinary chemist.”         –The New York Times Book Review

    “One of the most mind-stretching and inspirational books I’ve read for a long time.”         –Arthur C. Clarke

    “Kary Mullis, perhaps the weirdest human ever to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, [has written] a chatty, rambling, funny, iconoclastic tour through the wonderland that is [his] mind.” —The Washington Post

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