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Katalin Karikó

Biochemist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2023

Hungary / United States · b. 1955

Science and medicine

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Biochemist who worked on messenger RNA at the University of Pennsylvania and later at BioNTech in Germany. Shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Drew Weissman for nucleoside base modifications that enabled mRNA vaccines.

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Question What is the book you have given most as a gift, and why? Taste & recommendation read 11 other answers →
When I was 16 years old, I read the book from Hans Selye. Hans Selye is a Canadian scientist, but he was Hungarian so his book was translated to Hungarian. His mantra was that you have to focus on things that you can change. Many young ones are giving up because they can see that their friends or their colleagues are advancing, and it seems that they do less and somehow, they get higher salary and promoted. I told that if you notice that then you already took away your attention what you can change. Because you cannot change that.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview recorded shortly after the prize announcement, Nobel Prize Outreach, 2 October 2023 source ↗

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