The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing.
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Updated: October 7, 2020 3:37 PM IST
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a genome editing method known as CRISPR.
The winners were announced in Stockholm on Wednesday by Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and a cash prize of 10 million crowns (over $ 1.1 million), courtesy of a legacy left more than a century ago by its creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The amount was recently increased to adjust for inflation.
On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the physiology and medicine prize to Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British scientist Michael Houghton for discovering the hepatitis C virus, which devastates the liver. Tuesday’s physics award went to Roger Penrose from Great Britain, Reinhard Genzel from Germany and Andrea Ghez from the United States for their advances in understanding the mysteries of cosmic black holes.
The other awards are for outstanding work in the fields of literature, peace, and economics.
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