Chemistry
- Jennifer Doudna smashes the glass ceiling with her historic recognition in chemistry. Doudna, a former ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder postdoc, won the prize for co-development of the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier — the first time a science Nobel had been won by two women together.
- ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä distinguished professor Marvin Caruthers helped change the course of global human health.
- After ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä, Olester Benson Jr. went on to earn more than 70 patents, including several that made cellphones, laptops and TVs brighter, more colorful and energy efficient.