The youngest-ever winner of the Royal Society’s science book prize said her autism helped her succeed. Dr Camilla Pang’s celebrated book Explaining Humans is a memoir of growing up with autism. She said she used science “as a lens to understand human behaviour”.
Click here for an uplifting short talk by Dr Pang.
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