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📍 Amazingly, Katalin Kariko defied all these odds.

She managed to make discoveries under immense pressure.

She worked against the mainstream and norms of academia.

In 2020, her citation was ONLY ~ 13,000 !

She was an adjunct professor since 1990 at UPenn.

She NEVER got a tenure:

“Prior to her winning the Nobel Prize, [her university] had demoted her, cut her pay, and described Karikó as "not of faculty quality". She was never granted tenure.” [wiki]


Her life as a scientist who’s done stellar research despite astonishing setbacks is deeply motivating for some of us.

For others - it’s frightening.

Because her story acts as a magnifying glass.

It shows how today's academia makes pursuing science so difficult.

Original source: Andrew Akbashev
Staff Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute

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