“Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with practice and age; both depend on immediacy, precision, and opposable thumbs.)”

Indian physician, biologist, and author

Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian physician, biologist, and author known for writing about medicine, cancer, and genetics. He has 76 quotes on the site. His first book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, appeared in 2010 and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2011, along with the Guardian First Book Award. It was also included in Time magazine’s All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books. He followed it with The Gene: An Intimate History in 2016, which was named among The New York Times 100 best books of 2016 and was a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. In 2019, he received the Lewis Thomas Prize.