Alphabet Adds Nobel-Prize Winning Chemist Arnold to Board
- Caltech professor is the third woman on 11-member board
- Arnold to serve on nominating, corporate governance committees
Frances Arnold during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2018.
Photographer: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP vis Getty Images
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Alphabet Inc. named Frances Arnold, a Nobel-prize winning chemist, to its board, bringing the internet giant’s total number of female directors to three.
Arnold, a professor at California Institute of Technology, won the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry for her work developing the first proteins that can catalyze chemical reactions -- making it more environmentally friendly to develop new drugs and produce renewable energy, according to the Nobel Foundation.