2020 Nobel chemistry prize winners

2020 Nobel chemistry prize winners

File photo taken in April 2017 shows Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and Jennifer Doudna giving an interview in Tokyo. The two won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a revolutionary genome editing technique.

2020 Nobel chemistry prize winner

2020 Nobel chemistry prize winner

File photo in April 2017 shows Emmanuelle Charpentier giving an interview in Tokyo. The director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Jennifer Doudna for discovering a revolutionary genome editing technique.

2020 Nobel chemistry prize winner

2020 Nobel chemistry prize winner

File photo taken in April 2017 shows Jennifer Doudna giving an interview in Tokyo. The professor at the University of California, Berkeley, won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier for discovering a revolutionary genome editing technique.

Emperor, empress talk with Japan Prize laureate

Emperor, empress talk with Japan Prize laureate

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko talk to Jennifer Doudna (L), professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who received the Japan Prize for elucidating the genome editing mechanism, on April 19, 2017, in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

French, U.S. scientists awarded this year's Japan Prize

French, U.S. scientists awarded this year's Japan Prize

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and U.S. scientist Jennifer Doudna pose for photos in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2017, after the Japan Prize Foundation announced they have been awarded this year's Japan Prize. Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, and Doudna, professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, were awarded the prize for creating a revolutionary tool for editing DNA. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo