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October 8, 2020

Louise Glück, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier Awarded Nobel Prizes
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American poet Louise Glück has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in
Literature. On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work on a
gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. It's the first time the award has
gone to two women.


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