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Frances Arnold
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Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
Frances Arnold is an American scientist and engineer who won the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work in directed evolution, a technique that uses the process of natural selection to engineer new proteins and enzymes. Her research has practical applications in medicine, manufacturing, and environmental solutions, making her one of the most influential scientists of our time.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2018
“for the directed evolution of enzymes”
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- human
- Family name
- Arnold
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Occupation
- engineer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Perkin Medal
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- synthetic biology
- Official website
- www.che.caltech.edu/faculty/arnold_f/index.html
- Image
- Frances Arnold in 2021 at Caltech 01 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 0
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- member of
- Royal Society
- Commons category
- Frances Arnold
- unmarried partner
- Andrew E. Lange
- relative
- William Howard Arnold
- birth name
- Frances Hamilton Arnold
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- BBC 100 Women Edit-a-thon
- date of birth
- 1956-07-25
- name in native language
- Frances Hamilton Arnold
- social media followers
- 54124
- affiliation string
- California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
- affiliation
- California Institute of Technology
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) 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.
In 2019, Alphabet Inc. announced that Arnold had joined its board of directors. Since January 2021, she also served as an external co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
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