BIOLOGIST

Emmanuelle Charpentier

1968 - Today

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Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French pronunciation: [emanɥɛl maʁi ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing" (through CRISPR). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmanuelle Charpentier is the 191st most popular biologist (down from 145th in 2019), the 1,312th most popular biography from France (down from 1,270th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Emmanuelle Charpentier ranks 191 out of 1,097. Before her are Paul Greengard, Armand David, Martinus Beijerinck, Anna Atkins, Julius Richard Petri, and Julian Huxley. After her are Alexander Georg von Bunge, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Bruce Beutler, Jack Horner, Walther Flemming, and Michel Adanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Emmanuelle Charpentier ranks 27. Before her are Susan Wojcicki, Mohamed Atta, Kylie Minogue, Robert Rodriguez, Naomi Watts, and Fernando Hierro. After her are Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh, Vlade Divac, Nataša Pirc Musar, Alexander Stubb, Chris McCandless, and Marcel Desailly.

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In France

Among people born in France, Emmanuelle Charpentier ranks 1,312 out of 6,770. Before her are Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Maurice Thorez (1900), Adela of France (1009), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), and Jean-François Marmontel (1723). After her are Eva Gonzalès (1849), Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (1758), Alain de Lille (1117), Jean-Marie Villot (1905), Ariovistus (-101), and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Emmanuelle Charpentier ranks 27. Before her are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), and Armand David (1826). After her are Michel Adanson (1727), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), and Pierre Belon (1517).

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