Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-American physician, oncologist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose writing has transformed public understanding of medicine and biology. His book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was adapted into a Ken Burns documentary. Mukherjee... is also the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, which traces the history of genetics from Mendel to modern gene editing. He is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a practising oncologist. His audiobooks and books are celebrated for making complex science accessible and compelling, weaving together history, science, and personal narrative with remarkable skill. Read more Show less