“Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.”

American chemical engineer, Nobel laureate

Frances Hamilton Arnold 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. She won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes. Her work has helped shape modern protein engineering, and her public remarks often reflect the practical and scientific value of experimentation, design, and discovery.