This Day In History
- Arts
- 1954 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.
- 2018 Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television.
- Science
- 2009 Israeli Ada Yonath won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- 2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing”, CRISPR.
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