Emmanuelle Carpenter

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French: Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier, French pronunciation: [emanɥɛl maʁi ʃaʁpɑətje]; December 11, 1968 -), born in Revisy-sur-Orge, France, is a French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist. She is best known for developing CRISPR technology with American scientist Jennifer Downer and others. In 2016, he won the Tang Prize for Biotechnology and Medicine. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Dodna. This is the first Nobel Prize in Science ever awarded to only two women.