The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: Beyond a Review Posted on April 21, 2021 by Cyril Walter Isaacson is one of the world’s best biographers having studied and written about many including Steven Jobs, Albert Einstein and others. “The Code Breaker” is his brilliantly written biography of Jennifer Doudna who in 2020 shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with a French research collaborator, Emmanuella Charpentier. This is a fascinating story of a beautiful precocious girl from Hilo. While in 6th grade, her father had left on her bed “The Double Helix” written by Nobel Laureate James Watson. Inspired by the story in the book of Rosalind Franklin, a structural biologist and crystallographer, Jennifer went on “to do science” despite the fact she had been told that “girls don’t do science.” Jennifer Doudna’s story allows us a peek into the collaboration and fierce competition in research laboratories that helps foster scientific advancements. CLICK TO CONTINUE TO ARTICLE …