Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2021
Serving with Maria Zuber and Francis Collins
President
Joe Biden
Preceded by
Position established
Personal details
Born
Frances Hamilton Arnold
(1956-07-25) July 25, 1956 (age 67) Edgewood, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse
Jay Bailey
(divorced)
(1987–1991)
Domestic partner
Andrew E. Lange (1994–2010)
Children
3
Education
Princeton University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Awards
Garvan–Olin Medal (2005)
FASEB Excellence in Science Award (2007)
Draper Prize (2011)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2013)
Millennium Technology Prize (2016)
Sackler Prize in Convergence Research (2017)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemical engineering Bioengineering Biochemistry
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
Thesis
Design and Scale-Up of Affinity Separations(1985)
Doctoral advisor
Harvey Blanch
Doctoral students
Christopher Voigt
Huimin Zhao
Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956)[1] 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.[2]
Since January 2021, she serves as an external co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).[3][4]
^"Frances H. Arnold – Facts – 2018". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB. October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
^"The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Frances H. Arnold". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
^"Arnold Named Co-Chair of President-elect Biden's Science and Technology Advisory Council". Caltech. January 15, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
^Al-Khalili, Jim (2022). "Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Science is easy, people are really really hard
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