Nobel prize: two women share chemistry prize for the first time for work on ‘genetic scissors’
Surendranath, K. 2020. Nobel prize: two women share chemistry prize for the first time for work on ‘genetic scissors’. The Conversation.
Surendranath, K. 2020. Nobel prize: two women share chemistry prize for the first time for work on ‘genetic scissors’. The Conversation.
| Title | Nobel prize: two women share chemistry prize for the first time for work on ‘genetic scissors’ |
|---|---|
| Authors | Surendranath, K. |
| Description | Emmanuelle Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, US, are the joint winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry 2020 for the development of a precise method of editing genomes. This is the first time two female scientists have won the prize, which amounts to ten million Swedish kronor (£861,200) and will be shared equally between the laureates. |
| Year | 2020 |
| Keywords | Chemistry Genome editing CRISPR/Cas9 Nobel Prize 2020 |
| Publisher | The Conversation |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 07 Oct 2020 |
| Funder | Quintin Hogg Trust |
| Web address (URL) | https://theconversation.com/nobel-prize-two-women-share-chemistry-prize-for-the-first-time-for-work-on-genetic-scissors-147721 |
| Journal | The Conversation |