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Louise Glück, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier Awarded Nobel Prizes

HeadlineOct 08, 2020

American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work on a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. It’s the first time the award has gone to two women.

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