Born: 25 July 1956, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Frances Hamilton Arnold-Bailey
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Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
First woman to win the Millennium Technology Prize (2016) and the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering (2011).
National Medal of Technology and Innovation and National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Holds more than 60 U.S. patents.
Co-founder of three companies in sustainable fuels, chemistry, and agriculture.
Member of U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Foreign member of U.K. Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.
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