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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Scientist · born December 11, 1968

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Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French academic, microbiologist, geneticist, and biochemist. She has served as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin since 2015.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~48Received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science2016
  2. ~49Received the Japan Prize2017
  3. ~52Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2020
  4. ~52Received the Wolf Prize in Medicine2020

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