Pope Francis Appoints Another Female Nobel Laureate as Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences - FULL TEXT Official Release
Appointment of Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The Holy Father has appointed as Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Professor Jennifer Anne Doudna, Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley (United States of America).
Curriculum vitae
Prof. Jennifer Anne Doudna was born on February 19, 1964 in Washington (United States of America). He studied Chemistry at Pomona College in Claremont, specializing in Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge; continued his studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is currently Professor of Molecular Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2020, together with Prof. Emmanuelle M. Charpentier, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 genomic editing method .
Source: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/08/11/0496/01072.html
The
Pontifical Academy of Sciences was originally founded in 1603 and re-established by Blessed Pius IX in 1847. Pope Pius XI gave the Academy its current name and statutes in 1936.
The mission of the Academy is to honour pure science wherever it may be found, ensure its freedom and encourage research for the progress of science. (Vatican News Excerpt)
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