To be fair, writing a paper is not developing a technology.
And someone from the town I live discovered oxygen. No oxygen, no mRNA.
"Nothing is purely German or American nowadays."
I know that, not everyone seems to though:
"I've heard it quipped that Americans are subsidizing the discovery of new medical techniques for the rest of the world."
And not even nowadays. Like with the Wright Brothers, who used data from Otto Lilienthal.
But the Wikipedia article could not stop trying to minimize his impact,
"Lilienthal's research was well known to the Wright brothers, and they credited him as a major inspiration for their decision to pursue manned flight."
where someone felt the need to add
"They abandoned his aeronautical data after two seasons of gliding and began using their own wind tunnel data."
and make it all about the Wright Brothers. In an article about "Otto Lilienthal" not the Wright Brothers.
Going far enough, we should credit some anonymous Homo erectus for discovering fire... Not that I am completely joking, the tree of human knowledge is fascinating by its depth and goes deep into the pre-literate age.
That said, I wouldn't dismiss Karikó's and Weissman's discovery of replacement of uridine with pseudouridine as merely "writing a paper". It was a pretty crucial technological stepping stone that made mRNA treatment orders of magnitude less dangerous to humans. Same with their discovery of the way how to deliver mRNA into cells (using lipid nanoparticles).
"Nothing is purely German or American nowadays."
I know that, not everyone seems to though:
"I've heard it quipped that Americans are subsidizing the discovery of new medical techniques for the rest of the world."
And not even nowadays. Like with the Wright Brothers, who used data from Otto Lilienthal.
But the Wikipedia article could not stop trying to minimize his impact,
"Lilienthal's research was well known to the Wright brothers, and they credited him as a major inspiration for their decision to pursue manned flight."
where someone felt the need to add
"They abandoned his aeronautical data after two seasons of gliding and began using their own wind tunnel data."
and make it all about the Wright Brothers. In an article about "Otto Lilienthal" not the Wright Brothers.