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Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.
Jennifer Doudna This list of awards and honors received by Jennifer Doudna comprehensively shows the awards, honors, honorary degrees, fellowships and other recognition received by Jennifer Doudna, an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received many prestigious awards and fellowships for her numerous contributions to biochemistry and genetics, and is most ...
She has also been a co-recipient of the Gruber Prize in Genetics (2015), [88] the Tang Prize (2016), [12] the Japan Prize (2017) and the Albany Medical Center Prize (2017). [89] In 2018, Doudna was awarded the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences , [ 90 ] the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from the Rockefeller University , [ 91 ] and a Medal of Honor ...
Charpentier later shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 with Jennifer Doudna. As part of a working group, she provided the first scientific documentation on the development and use of CRISPR gene editing. This allows DNA to be specifically modified and edited, which can be used to ameliorate diseases.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. Winston Churchill (1874–1965) 1945, 1950 United Kingdom: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940–1945, 1951–1955) Churchill was nominated for his efforts to end World War II. Won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. [56] Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) 1945, 1948 Soviet Union
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" (through CRISPR). This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only. [4] [5] [6]
Ig Nobel Prize (1991), a satiric prize to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research every year [346] Right Livelihood Award (1980), which recognizes contributions to solving global problems, oftentimes called "Alternative Nobel Prize" and understood as a critique of the traditional Nobel prizes [347] [348] [349]