Frances Arnold
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Frances Arnold American chemical engineer who pioneered directed evolution — a method to engineer proteins for industrial, pharmaceutical, and green chemistry applications by mimicking natural selection in the lab. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018, making her the fifth woman to win the Chemistry prize. Her engineered enzymes are used in drug synthesis and biofuels.
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Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.
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