Q 01/05

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

A) Directed evolution of enzymes

B) CRISPR gene editing

C) Cryo-electron microscopy

D) Click chemistry

Answer · why

A) Directed evolution of enzymes

Directed evolution of enzymes is breeding brought down to the level of molecules, and her made-to-order proteins now help produce fuels and medicines ...

Q 02/05

In 2017 Arnold was named to a Caltech professorship honouring which double Nobel laureate?

A) Barry Sharpless

B) John Bardeen

C) Linus Pauling

D) Frederick Sanger

Answer · why

C) Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling won the Chemistry prize while at Caltech and later the Peace prize, and Arnold took the chair in his name after 17 years as the Dickinso...

Q 03/05

In 2019 Arnold joined the board of directors of which company?

A) Apple

B) Alphabet

C) Pfizer

D) Tesla

Answer · why

B) Alphabet

Alphabet, the parent of Google, appointed her days after Sundar Pichai succeeded co-founder Larry Page as chief executive, making her the third woman ...

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

Joe Biden named her co-chair in January 2021, days before he took office, to serve beside geophysicist Maria Zuber and his science adviser, the geneti...

Q 05/05

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

A) Chemical engineering

B) Astronomy

C) Medicine

D) Nuclear physics

Answer · why

D) Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics: he took his doctorate at Princeton and then helped design the pressurised water reactors that went into power stations around the wor...