Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Physician, Oncologist, Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian American physician, oncologist, and author who is a professor at Columbia University. His debut book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, offering a sweeping narrative history of humanity's struggle against the disease. His subsequent work The Gene: An Intimate History explored the science of heredity and its profound implications for human identity.

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Books by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Mukherjee traces the gene's history from Mendel's pea gardens to CRISPR, weaving science with personal family narrative. The gene is both the atom of heredity and a source of profound ethical dilemmas for our future.

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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Mukherjee traces the entire history of cancer from ancient Egypt to modern immunotherapy. Part biography of the disease, part chronicle of the researchers who fought to understand it.

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Most Recommended by Siddhartha

The books Siddhartha Mukherjee references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins reframes evolution from the organism's perspective to the gene's. Bodies are survival machines built by genes competing to replicate - a view that transformed modern biology.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

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Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells were taken without consent and became vital to modern medicine. It's a profound exploration of race, ethics, and the human cost behind scientific progress.

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Influence Map

Who Siddhartha draws from, and who draws from Siddhartha — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

Siddhartha cites most often

  1. 1Richard Dawkins
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  2. 2Rebecca Skloot
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Authors who cite Siddhartha most often

  1. 1Bill Bryson
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  2. 2Philipp Dettmer
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  3. 3Valter Longo
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  4. 4Michael Greger
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  5. 5Matt Richtel
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  6. 6Atul Gawande
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  7. 7David Quammen
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