Stockholm: Two women scientists won the Nobel Prize- 2020 in Chemistry on Wednesday for creating genetic ‘Scissors’ that can rewrite the code of life, contributing to new cancer therapies and holding out the prospect of curing hereditary diseases.

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, American scientist Jennifer Doudna share the $ 1.1 million prize for developing the CRISPER/ Cas9 tool to edit the DNA of animals, plants and micro-organisms with procession. Charpentier (51) and Doudna (56) become the 6^th and 7^th women to win a Nobel for Chemistry, joining Marie Curie, who won in 1911, and more recently, Frances Arnold in 2018. It is the first time since 1964, when Britain’s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin alone won the award; no men are among the winners of the Chemistry in prize.