Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist. In 2020, with Jennifer Doudna, she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a genome editing method” (via CRISPR-Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). This is the first scientific Nobel Prize ever won by just two women. In France, she is a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Technologies.