Title:

Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Affiliation:

California Institute of Technology

Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

1200 East California Blvd.

Pasadena,California 91125 USA

Gender:

Female

Award Discipline:

Chemistry

Award Year:

2010

Citation:

"For discovery of a new property of the DNA helix, long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics. Her experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer."

Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on Friday, October 21, 2011.