Walter Isaacson is a well-known biographer, with works on Henry Kissinger, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs among his subjects. His ability to bring his subjects to light and to blend deep research and page turning story telling is unparalleled.
In his new book The Code Breaker he returns to his usual themes of science, genius, experiment, code, thinking different — and meets his first female subject, Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR system of gene editing.
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