Why the 21st Century Will Be Defined by Biology

Neuroscientist Susan Hockfield—the first female president of MIT—on women in science, living batteries, and the coming biotech revolution

Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Published in
11 min readMar 5, 2019

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Susan Hockfield at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2012. Photo: World Economic Forum

WWhen the neuroscientist Susan Hockfield became the 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in December 2004, the news made…

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Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Writer for

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.