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Newsletter from World Scientific October 2018 World Scientific Authors Win 2018 Nobel Prizes Newsletter from World Scientific October 2018 World Scientific Authors Win 2018 Nobel Prizes World Scientific joyously congratulates our authors on winning the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics! Nobel Highlights • Dr Frances H. Arnold wins ½ of the Chemistry Prize "for the directed evolution of enzymes". :OLPZ[OLH\[OVYVM¸,_WHUKPUN[OL,Ua`TL<UP]LYZL;OYV\NOH Dr Frances H. 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