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Jennifer Doudna

1964 - Today

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Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing." She is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the department of chemistry and the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997. In 2012, Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were the first to propose that CRISPR-Cas9 (enzymes from bacteria that control microbial immunity) could be used for programmable editing of genomes, which has been called one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2024). Jennifer Doudna is the 398th most popular chemist (up from 407th in 2024), the 4,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,050th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Chemist. Learn more about Jennifer Doudna's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jennifer Doudna ranks 398 out of 602. Before her are Nicolas Lemery, Fausto Elhuyar, Maclyn McCarty, Adolph Frank, Ferdinand Reich, and Eric Betzig. After her are Koichi Tanaka, Otto Ambros, Leo Sternbach, Julia Lermontova, Roy J. Plunkett, and David Warren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Jennifer Doudna ranks 124. Before her are Vincent Perez, Kim Jee-woon, Rob Lowe, Melissa Gilbert, Hashem Safieddine, and Gerald Vanenburg. After her are Jean-Marc Bosman, Branco, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Eddie Vedder, Lars Mikkelsen, and Michelle Fairley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jennifer Doudna ranks 4,175 out of 20,380. Before her are Gloria Grahame (1923), Henry Armstrong (1912), Samuel Jones (1880), Eric Carle (1929), Aaliyah (1979), and Carl Bernstein (1944). After her are Zach Galifianakis (1969), Kenny Clarke (1914), Edwin Sutherland (1883), Lucius D. Clay (1898), Chubby Checker (1941), and Richard Jordan (1937).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Jennifer Doudna ranks 79. Before her are Alice Ball (1892), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Isabella Karle (1921), Maclyn McCarty (1911), and Eric Betzig (1960). After her are Roy J. Plunkett (1910), George Church (1954), Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847), James Crafts (1839), John Tukey (1915), and Myrtle Bachelder (1908).

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