On October 3, 2018, this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners were announced.

Photo Credit: Caltech; University of Missouri; and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

“The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold of California Institute of Technology for the directed evolution of enzymes and to George P. Smith of the University of Missouri and Gregory P. Winter of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology for the phage display of peptides and antibodies. Arnold will receive half of the approximately $1 million prize; Smith and Winter will split the other half equally,” wrote Celia Henry Arnaud of Chemical & Engineering News. Arnold is just the second woman to win the prize in the past 50 years.

Learn more about the development and uses of directed evolution enzymes and the phage display of peptides and antibodies at Chemical & Engineering News, Nature International Journal of Science, and The Nobel Prize.