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Breaking Through
A Memoir
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How one woman's extraordinary determination saved millions of lives—the inspiring memoir from the Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher's daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water, she...
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How one woman's extraordinary determination saved millions of lives—the inspiring memoir from the Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher's daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water, she saw potential everywhere—in the promise of a seed, in the alchemy of soap, in the scarlet of a carcass.
Breaking Through is the extraordinary story of her courageous determination—first to become a scientist, and then to unlock an elusive molecule she believed could revolutionise medicine. Others disagreed, and for decades she endured demotions, discrimination, and even threats of deportation. Yet Karikó persevered, ultimately making a world-shifting discovery—the mRNA vaccine technology that saved millions of lives and will transform healthcare forever.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529936391
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 February 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 249g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Katalin Karik is a biochemist and winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Her pioneering research was the foundation of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and paves the way for a host of treatments for cancer, HIV, malaria and other life-threatening diseases. Now an honorary professor at many universities, she has been awarded over a hundred prizes, had two children's books have been written about her and a minor planet named after her. She and her husband Bela are the parents of two-time Olympic rowing champion Susan Francia.
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