Zócalo Public SquareCancer Physician and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Siddhartha Mukherjee – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Cancer Physician and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Siddhartha Mukherjee https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/07/16/cancer-physician-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-siddhartha-mukherjee/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/07/16/cancer-physician-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-siddhartha-mukherjee/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:01:27 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=75905 Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Gene: An Intimate History. He also is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. Before speaking at a Zócalo event about genes—“Will Genetic Engineering Endanger Humanity?”—he talked about chocolate for breakfast, Einstein’s hair, and Scrabble.

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]]> Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Gene: An Intimate History. He also is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. Before speaking at a Zócalo event about genes—“Will Genetic Engineering Endanger Humanity?”—he talked about chocolate for breakfast, Einstein’s hair, and Scrabble.

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