Frances Arnold
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemist and engineer. She is known for her methods of directed evolution to create useful biological systems, including enzymes, metabolic pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and organisms.
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| Born | Frances Hamilton Arnold July 25, 1956 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Garvan–Olin Medal (2005) FASEB Excellence in Science Award (2007) Draper Prize (2011) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2013) Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research (2017) Millennium Technology Prize NAE Member NAS Member FREng Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018) |
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| Fields | Chemical Engineering |
| Institutions | Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Harvey Warren Blanch |
| Notable students | Christopher Voigt, Huimin Zhao |
She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
In 2018, Arnold was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside George P. Smith and Greg Winter.[1]
References
- "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018" (PDF). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
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