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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer , that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction , [2] and Guardian First Book Award , [3] among others.
Jul 17, 2024 · Siddhartha Mukherjee (born July 21, 1970, New Delhi, India) is an Indian-born American oncologist and writer celebrated for his effort to demystify cancer with his Pulitzer Prize -winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010). The work was published to wide acclaim and later formed the basis of the American film ...
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s THE GENE: An Intimate History is his latest work – the story of the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans, that governs our form, function, and fate and determines the future of our children.
Oct 24, 2022 · In his new book, “The Song of the Cell,” Siddhartha Mukherjee has taken on a subject that is enormous and minuscule at once. Even though cells are typically so tiny that you need a microscope ...
Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.
Nov 6, 2022 · Every Monday, Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee arrives early at his Columbia University lab to stare through the microscope at slides of red. Waiting very much in Shakespearean fashion for his patient’s blood to speak to him. In Mukherjee’s landscape, the quest to push the frontiers of science is propelled by wonder and by what is the bedrock of medicine: Healing and empathy.
Over the next six years, Mukherjee wrote the influential, Pulitzer-winning The Emperor of All Maladies, a 4,000-year “biography” of cancer. He collaborated with Ken Burns on a six-hour documentary for PBS based on his book, updating the story with recent discoveries in oncology. In his new TED Book, The Laws of Medicine, he examines the ...
Sep 9, 2022 · Mukherjee’s latest book examines once-radical new technologies, including the first in vitro fertilization and the first stem cell transplants, and the fierce ethical debates they inspired. Mark ...
Dec 14, 2022 · Pioneering oncologist, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee is one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers. He is the author of The New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, a groundbreaking work that charts the history of cancer with a ...
Aug 9, 2011 · Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford ...
