Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing". This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.

11 December 1968

Born on the same birth date (11 December 1968): Fabrizio Ravanelli

Born on the same birth day (11 December): Abbi Grant • Alessandro Melli • Alexa Demie • Andriy Husin • Annie Jump Cannon • Arnold Majewski • Carlo Ponti • Carolyn Waldo • Chris Shepherd • Chus Lampreave • Claudia Kohde-Kilsch • Doc Blanchard • Elmer Vasko • Gerben de Knegt • Hailee Steinfeld • Hans van den Broek • Jean Marais • Lani Brockman • Mark Greatbatch • Max Baucus • Max Born • Miranda Tapsell • Rey Mysterio • Val Guest • Xosha Roquemore

Born in the same month (December 1968): Adam Dale • Albano Mucci • Alejandro Sanz • Greg Kovacs • Jim Dowd (ice hockey) • Jiří Dopita • Karl Wendlinger • Luis Hernández (footballer, born 1968) • Manuel Rivera-Ortiz • Margaret Cho • Nate Mendel • Sarah Fitz-Gerald • Tahir Dawar