Frances H. Arnold

Frances Arnold, a Nobel Prize-winning chemical engineer at Caltech, revolutionized enzyme creation through directed evolution, a method mimicking natural selection. She discusses the intricate world of enzymes, their critical roles, and how her insights transformed industries from agriculture to biofuels. Arnold shares her journey from skepticism to acceptance in the tech world, emphasizing the importance of intuition and art in science. She also explores innovative pest control using insect pheromones and envisions a future where microbes create sustainable materials from CO2.

Chemistry Nobel laureates Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, and Gregory P. Winter discuss their revolutionary work in harnessing the power of evolution to create new chemical entities with useful properties.