Emmanuelle Charpentier
French microbiologist
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| 2024 | Received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement and was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. |
| 2021 | Walter Isaacson published the biography 'The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race', detailing Charpentier's collaboration with Jennifer Doudna in the groundbreaking CRISPR/CAS-9 discovery. |
| 2020 | Received the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (both jointly with Jennifer Doudna). |
| 2020 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Jennifer Doudna for developing a method for genome editing (CRISPR), making history as the first all-female team to win a science Nobel Prize. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Scheele Award of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society and made Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. |
| 2019 | Charpentier was featured as a character in the play STEM FEMMES by Philadelphia theater company Applied Mechanics, highlighting her significance in scientific representation. |
| 2018 | Received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Bijvoet Medal, and Harvey Prize. |
| 2018 | Charpentier founds the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, establishing her own independent research institute. |
| 2017 | Elected as a Foreign Associate to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, marking her global scientific recognition. |
| 2017 | Honored with the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Japan Prize, Albany Medical Center Prize, and was awarded the Pour le Mérite honor. |
| 2017 | Ended her visiting professor position at Umeå University. Received new donations from Kempe Foundations and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to offer research positions. |
| 2016 | Received numerous international honors, including the Otto Warburg Medal, L'Oréal-UNESCO 'For Women in Science' Award, Leibniz Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Tang Prize, and was knighted as a Chevalier in the French National Order of the Legion of Honour. |
| 2016 | Became an Honorary Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. |
| 2015 | Recognized as one of the Time 100 most influential people in the world alongside Jennifer Doudna. Also received multiple significant awards including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, Princess of Asturias Awards, and Gruber Foundation International Prize in Genetics. |
| 2015 | Accepted offer from the German Max Planck Society to become a scientific member and director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. |
| 2014 | Awarded multiple prestigious honors, including the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, the Göran Gustafsson Prize for Molecular Biology, the Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (shared with Jennifer Doudna), and the Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award (shared with Feng Zhang and Jennifer Doudna). |
| 2014 | Became an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and visiting professor at Umeå University, continuing the visiting professorship until 2017. |
| 2013 | Became department head and W3 Professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, continuing until 2015. |
| 2011 | Received the Fernström Prize, highlighting her potential as a young and promising scientist in her field. |
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