# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frances-arnold
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:15:56.424Z

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name: "Frances Arnold"
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description: "Frances Hamilton Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel Laureate. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes."
tagline: "Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)"
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birthDate: "1956-07-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump