Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of Crispr, a genome editing method | Science and health

• Emmanuelle CharpentierA 51-year-old Frenchman, he is director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.
• Jennifer Doudna, 56-year-old American, is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Charpentier spoke to the press shortly after the award was announced and responded to a question about her and Doudna as the first women to jointly win the Nobel Prize.

“I would like to send a positive message to girls who want to follow the path of science. I think we have shown them that, in principle, a woman scientist can have an impact on the science they are doing. I hope Jennifer Doudna and I can send a strong message to girls, “he declared.

The winners will share the amount of SEK 10 million (around R $ 6.3 million).

Before Charpentier and Doudna, five women had already won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Marie Curie (1911), Irène Joliot-Curie (1935), Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1964), Ada E. Yonath (2009) and Frances H. Arnold (2018).

• Women represent only 5% of Nobel Prize winners since 1901

With the victory of the two scientists, the Nobel Prize already has three women winners this year. The first was Andrea Ghez, who shared the award with two scientists for their research on black holes.

The prize in Medicine was the first to be announced, on Monday (5), for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The prize in Physics, launched on Tuesday (6), was allocated to research on black holes (see video below).

The awards in Literature me Peace It will also be delivered this week; the degree in Economics will be announced next Monday (12). See schedule:

• Medicine: Monday, October 5
• Physical: Tuesday 6th October
• Chemistry: Wednesday October 7
• Literature: Thursday October 8
• Peace: Friday October 9
• Economy: Monday October 12