Who among the following has won the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize?
Who among the following has won the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize?
[A]Bill Gates
[B]Tim Berners-Lee
[C]Stuart Parkin
[D]Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold
Prof. Frances Hamilton Arnold, an American scientist and engineer, has won the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of ‘directed evolution’, which mimics natural evolution to create new and better proteins in the laboratory. With this, she became the first woman to win the €1m prize. The Millennium Technology Prize is awarded once every two years by Technology Academy Finland (TAF) and presented by the President of Finland to promote technological research and Finland as a high-tech Nordic welfare state.