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Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using evolutionary principles to create highly efficient enzymes and antibodies, with numerous practical applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This year's prize is about harnessing the power of evolution.

0:35.9

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award

0:39.9

2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Francis H. Arnold for the directed evolution of enzymes.

0:50.3

And the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.

1:00.9

Jaron Hanson, Secretary General of the Academy earlier today.

1:04.6

And I'm Steve Merski. This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 3, 2018.

1:10.7

What follows is an edited version of the announcement and press conference.

1:15.0

Francis H. Arnold was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1956,

1:20.9

and she is currently at the California Institute of Technology, Caltech, in Pasadenaena in the Los Angeles area.

1:28.3

George P. Smith was born in 1941 in Norwalk, Connecticut,

1:33.3

and he's currently at the University of Missouri in Colombia in the United States.

1:38.3

Sir Gregory P. Winter was born in 195, in Leicester in the United Kingdom.

1:45.0

And he is at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the University of Cambridge in England.

1:51.0

And with me today is on my right, Professor Clauss Gustavson, who is the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

1:58.0

And on my left, Professor Sarah Snogger Up, Linze, who is a member of the committee,

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