Entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk was on Monday, 13 December announced as Time Magazine’s 2021 'Person of the Year'. Meanwhile, vaccine scientists Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman were announced Time Magazine’s 2021 'Heroes of the Year'.
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Entrepreneur and business magnate Elon Musk was on Monday, 13 December announced as Time Magazine’s 2021 'Person of the Year'. Meanwhile, vaccine scientists Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman were announced Time Magazine’s 2021 'Heroes of the Year'.
In it’s description of Musk, TIME wrote:
"The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons."
Describing the Heroes of The Year as ’The Miracle Workers’, TIME, further, wrote:
"There were times in their careers when, deep in the work that would ultimately rescue humanity, Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman felt as though the problems they faced were ones they alone cared about solving," TIME Magazine further wrote, adding that "...exposing the inner workings of how viruses survive and thrive is what made the COVID-19 vaccines possible."
Earlier in 2020, America’s then President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were chosen by Time Magazine as ‘Person of the Year’.
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