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Frances Arnold

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Frances Arnold

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Also known as Frances H. Arnold

Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)

AI overview

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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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1874-09-13
Active to
1951-07-13
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5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,975x

  2. Model Evaluation Guidelines for Systematic Quantification of Accuracy in Watershed Simulations

    · 2007 · cited 10,233x

  3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,205x

  4. The job demands-resources model of burnout.

    · 2001 · cited 9,864x

  5. The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art

    · 2007 · cited 9,715x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2018

    “for the directed evolution of enzymes”

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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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