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Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) [1] 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 Nonfiction, [2] and Guardian First Book Award, [3] among others.
The book weaves together Mukherjee's experiences as a hematology/oncology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the history of cancer treatment and research. [2] [3] Mukherjee gives the history of cancer from its first identification 4,600 years ago by the Egyptian physician Imhotep. The Greeks had no understanding of cells, but ...
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Mukherjee structures much of his book in a way that does focus on the individual notes of the cellular song, devoting chapters to The Healing Cell (such as platelets); The Discerning Cell (the ...
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970), Indian physician and author, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; Siddhartha Nuni (born 1983), Indian cinematographer; Siddhartha Sarma, Indian novelist; Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010), Indian lawyer and politician; Siddhartha Roy (born 1954), Indian structural biologist and biophysicist
The Gene: An Intimate History is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. It was published on 17 May 2016 by Scribner . [ 1 ] The book chronicles the history of the gene and genetic research, all the way from Aristotle to Crick , Watson and Franklin and then the 21st century scientists who mapped ...