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Breaking through my life in science

"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in a one-room home that lacked...

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Main Author: Karikó, Katalin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
Edition:Crown Trade Paperback Edition.
Subjects:
Karikó, Katalin.
Women biochemists > United States > Biography.
Biochemists > United States > Biography.
Women immigrants > United States > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Hungarian Americans > Biography.
Hungarians > United States > Biography.
mRNA vaccines > Development.
COVID-19 vaccines > Development.
Biochemistry.
mRNA vaccines.
Immigrants.
Women scientists > United States > Biography.
Women.
Messenger RNA.
COVID-19 vaccines.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • A butcher's daughter
  • An extremely brief interlude on science
  • A sense of purpose
  • An outsider inside the system
  • Susan's mom
  • A changed world
  • Epilogue.

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