Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold
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
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Born
Frances Hamilton Arnold

(1956-07-25) July 25, 1956 (age 67)
Edgewood, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse
(divorced)
(1987–1991)
Domestic partnerAndrew E. Lange (1994–2010)
Children3
EducationPrinceton University (BS)
University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemical engineering
Bioengineering
Biochemistry
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
ThesisDesign and Scale-Up of Affinity Separations (1985)
Doctoral advisorHarvey 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]

Since January 2021, she serves as an external co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).[3][4]

  1. ^ "Frances H. Arnold – Facts – 2018". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB. October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Frances H. Arnold". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  3. ^ "Arnold Named Co-Chair of President-elect Biden's Science and Technology Advisory Council". Caltech. January 15, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  4. ^ Al-Khalili, Jim (2022). "Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Science is easy, people are really really hard

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