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Frances Arnold

1956 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Arnold has received more than 848,725 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Frances Arnold is the 326th most popular chemist (down from 315th in 2019), the 2,441st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,502nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Chemist.

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  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Frances Arnold ranks 326 out of 602. Before her are Louis E. Brus, Charles Friedel, Richard J. Roberts, Sendivogius, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, and Alexandre Brongniart. After her are Victor Goldschmidt, François-Marie Raoult, Jean Stas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Édouard Herzen, and Thomas C. Südhof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Frances Arnold ranks 86. Before her are Ewa Kopacz, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Sugar Ray Leonard, Andrus Ansip, Alain Ducasse, and Boris Trajkovski. After her are Mimi Rogers, Maggie Reilly, Sela Ward, Fernando Gomes, Mikuláš Dzurinda, and Bruce Greenwood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances Arnold ranks 2,441 out of 20,380. Before her are Saul Bass (1920), Michael Kamen (1948), Vera Wang (1949), Ralph Boston (1939), James Bond (1900), and Joe Dante (1946). After her are Jaclyn Smith (1945), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), John Milnor (1931), Henry Winkler (1945), Dan Quayle (1947), and Henry George (1839).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Frances Arnold ranks 68. Before her are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), Thomas Cech (1947), Alexander Shulgin (1925), Alice Ball (1892), William E. Moerner (1953), and Louis E. Brus (1943). After her are Roger Y. Tsien (1952), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Allen J. Bard (1933), Albert Ghiorso (1915), and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847).

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