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Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Indian-American physician and writer (born 1970)

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among other awards.

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2023Enlightener Prize
2014Padma Shri in Medicine
2011Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2011PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
2011Guardian First Book Award
1993Rhodes Scholarship

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010), won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among other awards. It was listed in the "All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books" by Time magazine in 2011. He followed it with The Gene: An Intimate History (2016), which was among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He won the 2019 Lewis Thomas Prize.

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United States
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Doctors
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Doctor
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Born 1970 · age 56
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