The Code Breaker
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| Author | Walter Isaacson |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | March 9, 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 560 |
| ISBN | 978-1-9821-1585-2 (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 1187220557 |
| 576.5 | |
| LC Class | QH440 .I83 2021 |
| Preceded by | Leonardo da Vinci |
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race is a non-fiction book authored by American historian and journalist Walter Isaacson. Published in March 2021 by Simon & Schuster, it is a biography of Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the CRISPR system of gene editing.