Five of the best science books
The handwriting of the greats, and solutions that make things worse: Books in brief
- Breaking Through, Katalin Karikó (2023)
Biochemist Katalin Karikó, daughter of a butcher, was born in 1950s Hungary in a cramped earth-brick house without running water. In 2023, she shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of vaccines against COVID‑19. Her autobiography describes her vital, sometimes moving, personal and scientific struggle for success.
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