Dr. Frances Arnold
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245 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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Yes, I did.
I started as an assistant professor of chemical engineering.
at a time when chemical engineers were all working for the oil companies.
I thought I would work on alternative energy because I had come from the solar energy background.
But I ended up at Berkeley getting my PhD at the beginning of the DNA revolution.
Imagine how exciting that was.
So here I am an engineer, but I could see that there was this future of rewriting the code of life.
And I said, I want to be an engineer of the biological world at a time when that first became possible.
Right.
It didn't exist before.
It didn't exist.
And my timing was perfect.
I did.
I did.
But I was lucky to be in the middle of it.
What was the biggest failure in your career?
Oh, I've had so many failures.
The biggest failure is staying too long at something.
I don't dwell on failures.
I just move quickly to other opportunities.
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