Frances Arnold, Ph.D., is the Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she creates new biological molecules and organisms by forcing their evolution in the laboratory. An elected member of all three U.S. national academies (Science, Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine), she recently accepted the National Academy of Engineering's 2011 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
Frances Arnold, Ph.D., is the Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she creates new biological molecules and organisms by forcing their evolution in the laborato