Frances Arnold

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frances Arnold
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Jul 25, 1956(1956-07-25)
Age	68
Birthplace	Edgewood
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Cancer

Frances Arnold Biography

Frances Arnold is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on July 25, 1956 in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, United States. American scientist who was the first to pioneer methods of directed evolution in order to develop beneficial biological systems. She was selected into The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering as well as The Institute of Medicine. Being elected to the three National Academies in the US is a remarkable feat for scientists.

She was awarded her National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2012 from President She received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2012 from President Barack Obama..

Arnold is the daughter of Josephine Inman (née Routheau) and nuclear physicist William Howard Arnold, and the granddaughter of Lieutenant General William Howard Arnold. She grew up in Pittsburgh suburb Edgewood, and Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Shadyside and Squirrel Hill, graduating from the city’s Taylor Allderdice High School in 1974. As a high schooler, she hitchhiked to Washington, D.C. to protest the Vietnam War and lived on her own working as a cocktail waitress at a local jazz club and a cab driver.

After graduating from Princeton in 1979, Arnold worked as an engineer in South Korea and Brazil and at Colorado’s Solar Energy Research Institute. At the Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), she worked on designing solar energy facilities for remote locations and helped write United Nations (UN) position papers.

She has three sons.

Frances Arnold Net Worth

Frances Arnold is one of the richest Biologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frances Arnold 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at University of California Berkeley. University of California Berkeley.

In 2011, she won in 2011 the Draper Prize for her her engineering work.

Frances Hamilton Arnold (born July 25, 1956) is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.

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Who is Frances Arnold Dating?

According to our records, Frances Arnold married to Andrew E. Lange , Jay Bailey. As of December 1, 2023, Frances Arnold’s is not dating anyone.

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Arnold married Caltech astrophysicist Andrew E. Lange in 1994, and they had two sons, William and Joseph. Lange committed suicide in 2010 and one of their sons, William Lange-Arnold, died in an accident in 2016.

Facts & Trivia

Frances Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Frances Arnold celebrates birthday on July 25 of every year.

Arnold lives in La Cañada Flintridge, California. She was married to James E. Bailey who died of cancer in 2001. They had a son named James Bailey. Arnold was herself diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and underwent treatment for 18 months.

What did Frances Arnold discover?

Research. Arnold is credited with pioneering the use of directed evolution to create enzymes (biochemical molecules—often proteins—that catalyze, or speed up, chemical reactions) with improved and/or novel functions.

What is Frances Arnold known for?

Frances Arnold, in full Frances Hamilton Arnold, (born July 25, 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), American chemical engineer who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on directed evolution of enzymes. She shared the prize with American biochemist George P. Smith and British biochemist Gregory P.

How old is Frances Arnold?

65 years (July 25, 1956)

What is directed evolution and why did it win the chemistry Nobel Prize?

Frances Arnold won the 2018 chemistry Nobel prize for her research on directed evolution. Directed evolution speeds up nature’s variation and selection process, and researchers use it to find the best enzymes for industrial applications.

Who got Nobel Prize working on enzymes?

The 1955 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to Swedish physician-biochemist Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell for his work on the nature and mode of action of oxidative enzymes.