Giving up was not an option

The central sentence in Katalin Karikó's description of her life and research is almost exactly in the middle of her book: "I would manage it. I just had to." It was this attitude that describes the arduous path of a Hungarian butcher's daughter into science and to the Nobel Prize for Medicine as briefly as it was aptly. Short, memorable sentences are [...] The article Giving up was not an option first appeared on wissenschaft.de.