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Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold · Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Frances Arnold

b. 1956

Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)

Born
25 Jul 1956 · Pittsburgh

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 81 years
  1. 25 Jul 1956BornBorn in Pittsburgh
  2. 1989AwardPackard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
  3. 2005AwardGarvan–Olin Medal
  4. 2007AwardFASEB Excellence in Science Award
  5. 2009AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  6. 2011AwardCharles Stark Draper Prize
  7. 2011AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  8. 2011AwardNational Medal of Technology and Innovation
  9. 2014AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame
  10. 2015AwardHonorary doctor of ETH Zürich
  11. 2016AwardMillennium Technology Prize
  12. 2017AwardRaymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research
  13. 2017AwardSociety of Women Engineers Achievement Award
  14. 2019RoleBoard of directors member

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1956 – today).

  1. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  2. 1956Suez Crisis
  3. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  5. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  7. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  9. 1968Prague Spring
  10. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  11. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  12. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  15. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  16. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  17. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  18. 1985Schengen Agreement
  19. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  20. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  21. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  23. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  25. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  26. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  27. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  28. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  29. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  30. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  31. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  32. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  33. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  34. 20112011 Norway attacks
  35. 2011Libyan civil war
  36. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  37. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  38. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  39. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  40. 2015Paris Agreement

Biography

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. For the length of his presidency, 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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