Caltech's Frances Arnold wins Draper Prize for biofuels-related research

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Frances H. Arnold, a California Institute of Technology researcher, has won the 2011 Draper Prize, often described as the Nobel Prize for engineering, for her pioneering work on “directed evolution.”

The technique, a way to use evolution to engineer biology, has broad application in the fields of alternative energy and medicine.

Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering, is the first woman to win the prize.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/01/frances-arnold-caltech-directed-evolution-draper-prize.html

In 2008, Arnold became one of eight living scientists to be elected to all three of the most prestigious scientific societies, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

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1. If you do it right nobody knows you've done anything at all

Ms Arnold works in mysterious ways...