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I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
— Emmanuelle Charpentier
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Emmanuelle Charpentier
microbiologist, biochemist, university teacher, geneticist, immunologist, scientist
1968
Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing". This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.