- 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