Q 01/05

Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering which technique?

A) Directed evolution of enzymes

B) Phage display of antibodies

C) Cryo-electron microscopy

D) Click chemistry

Answer · why

A) Directed evolution of enzymes

The other half of that year's prize went to George Smith and Gregory Winter for phage display.

Q 02/05

Arnold's endowed professorship is named after which double Nobel laureate?

A) Marie Curie

B) John Bardeen

C) Linus Pauling

D) Frederick Sanger

Answer · why

C) Linus Pauling

She was named Linus Pauling Professor in 2017 after 17 years as the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor.

Q 03/05

In 2019 Arnold joined the board of directors of which company, becoming its third woman director?

A) Apple

B) Alphabet

C) Pfizer

D) Tesla

Answer · why

B) Alphabet

She has also sat on the board of a genomics company since 2016.

Q 04/05

Arnold served as external co-chair of which president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology?

A) Barack Obama

B) Bill Clinton

C) Donald Trump

D) Joe Biden

Answer · why

D) Joe Biden

She had worked with the transition team to identify scientists for roles in the administration.

Q 05/05

Arnold's father William Howard Arnold worked in which field?

A) Chemical engineering

B) Astronomy

C) Medicine

D) Nuclear physics

Answer · why

D) Nuclear physics

Her grandfather of the same name was a lieutenant general.