Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡塔林·考里科（Katalin Karikó），塞格德大学教授、宾夕法尼亚大学兼任教授。生物化学家，专攻RNA介导机制。2023年，凭借在核苷碱基修饰方面的发现，考里科与德鲁·韦斯曼共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。 考里科于1982年获得匈牙利塞格德大学生物化学博士学位，随后在匈牙利生物研究中心进行博士后研究，1989年任职于宾夕法尼亚大学，并从1997年开始与韦斯曼合作。 因为在生物化学领域做出具有全球意义的贡献，考里科当选为美国国家医学院院士、美国国家发明家科学院院士、美国国家科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士、匈牙利科学院院士、德国国家科学院院士、欧洲科学院院士、法兰西科学院外籍院士，获得一百多个国际奖项和荣誉，其中包括拉斯克临床医学奖、《时代》周刊2021年度英雄、匈牙利圣斯蒂芬勋章，并获得耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、特拉维夫大学、香港...(展开全部)

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion. Called “one of the best nonfiction wr...(展开全部)

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion. Called “one of the best nonfiction wr...(展开全部)

One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes—one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large molecules, and one in peace, for helping to end nuclear bomb testing. His brilliance was allied with a certain stubbornness, and when he died in 1994, at the age of 93, he was embro...(展开全部)