Emmanuelle charpentier net worth
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Curious, Persistent and Always Trusting my Instinct
As told by Emmanuelle Charpentier
I was born in December 1968, at the height of the student and civil protest movements and grew up in a small and relatively quiet town about 25 kilometers south of Paris. I have always been encouraged by my parents to explore my own academic interests. In school, I was an enthusiastic and aspiring student, always eager to acquire knowledge and to achieve excellence and therefore, I took my studies seriously. During my time at primary school, the oldest of my two sisters entered university and I understood already early on that academia was a place where one could continue to study, do research, teach and transfer knowledge. I therefore wanted to follow her path and was even more motivated to continue my studies.
Although it was not clear at the time that I would eventually study biology, I showed an interest in science very early on. In fact, I was interested not only in pure sciences and mathematics, but also in the human sciences — psychology, sociology and philosophy. My father liked to e
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As a young girl growing up in the environs of Paris, Emmanuelle Charpentier was encouraged by her father, a park manager, and her mother, working in psychiatry, to explore her own academic interests, which were many. “I was a serious student,” she recalls, “but I was interested in a number of things. I liked pure science and mathematics, but I was also interested in the human sciences — psychology, sociology and philosophy.” She also remembers her father teaching her the Latin names of many plants. “Maybe this influenced me to pursue science,” she says with a laugh.
Charpentier went to the Pierre and Marie Curie University for her undergraduate and graduate studies, receiving a degree in biochemistry in 1991 and a PhD in microbiology in 1995. When Charpentier announced to her family that she would be doing her graduate research at the Pasteur Institute, her mother wasn’t surprised. “She told me that when I was around 12 years old, I had announced that I would be working there one day,” she recalls.
The lab felt immediately like home to Charpentier. She realized that
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Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate
Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French pronunciation:[emanɥɛlmaʁiʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; born 11 December 1968[2]) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry.[1] 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.[3] 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" (through CRISPR). This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.[4][5][6]
Early life and education
Born in 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge in France, Charpentier studied biochemistry, microbiology, and genetics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (which became the Faculty of Science of Sorbonne University) in Paris.[7]
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