The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-03
"for the directed evolution of enzymes"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Frances H. Arnold
Born: 1956-07-25 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Gender: female
Field: American chemist and academic (born 1956)
Biography
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.