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Emmanuelle Charpentier

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French microbiologist, born 1968, who did the foundational work on the tracrRNA component of CRISPR while running a small lab at Umeå University in Sweden. She now directs the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin. Her 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Doudna, was the first science Nobel awarded to two women alone.

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