Berkeley News on Wednesday captured the waking moment of Jennifer Dodna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, after she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020, and the following day. (Video from UC Berkeley by Claire Major and Roxanne Macasdjian)
When Jennifer Dodna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, went to bed last night, she didn’t seriously think about her chance of winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Then, a phone call woke her up today, just before 3 in the morning. She was a reporter asking for comment about winning the award. Dodna said her initial response was, “Who won?”
“I don’t know what to say, I’m so proud. This morning from her home in Berkeley, she co-developed with fellow Emmanuel Sharpentier of CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine,” said Dodna this morning. . For me the little one who wins the award, it’s amazing. “
Dodna is the first woman at Berkeley College to win a Nobel Prize. She and Sharpentier also became the first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize in Science together.
Dodna’s awake moments after he won a Nobel Prize, and the day after that, caught the news of Berkeley. Watch the video above!
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