Frances Arnold | |
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.jpg) Arnold in 2021 | |
| Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2021 Serving with Maria Zuber and Francis Collins | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Frances Hamilton Arnold July 25, 1956 Edgewood, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Spouse | (1987–1991) |
| Domestic partner | Andrew E. Lange (1994–2010) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Princeton University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical engineering Bioengineering Biochemistry |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Design and Scale-Up of Affinity Separations (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harvey Blanch |
| Doctoral students | |
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956)[1] 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.[2]
In 2019, Alphabet Inc. announced that Arnold had joined its board of directors. Since January 2021, she has also served as an external co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)[3][4]
- ^ "Frances H. Arnold – Facts – 2018". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB. October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Frances H. Arnold". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
- ^ "Arnold Named Co-Chair of President-elect Biden's Science and Technology Advisory Council". Caltech. January 15, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
- ^ Al-Khalili, Jim (2022). "Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize". bbc.co.uk. BBC.
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