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2018 Nobel Chemistry Prize

October 6 , 2018 2247 days 1103 0
  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has selected
    • US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and
    • British researcher Gregory Winter

for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  • They were selected for harnessing power of evolution to develop enzymes and antibodies that have led to new pharmaceuticals and biofuels.
  • Chemistry was third of this year’s Nobel Prizes.
  • Frances Arnold is the fifth woman to win a chemistry Nobel in the prize’s 117-year history.
  • Smith had developed new way to evolve proteins and Winter had used method for evolving antibodies

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