You look great.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I'm so excited.
It's a surreal experience at our house.
Cat is out. We have to get the cat back.
We'll get the cat. Might be tricky. Hey, Pickles.
I think he'd actually like to be out
on the patio with us.
He's got his outfit on. He's got his tuxedo on.
He's better dressed than us.
Yeah.
An hour to go before you get
your Nobel Prize medal. How are you feeling?
I'm nervous. I'm
incredibly excited and it hasn't really hit me.
It just feels a bit unreal.
Here we are on my patio in Berkeley and my husband,
Jamie Cate said to me this morning, ''Well,
this is probably the first and maybe last time in
the history of the Nobel that
the medal will be given at our house.''
I'm going to call my sister on FaceTime.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm good. How are you?
I'm good. We're setting up here.
My sister is on FaceTime from Manhattan.
There I'm going to show you the table,
where they actually have the prize.
Can you see it?
Emmanuelle and I, we're thrilled and we're delighted
to be the first two women to
receive the prize in chemistry,
without a man.
You got it. Great to see that.
You were the two women to own this prize.
It's sometimes difficult to say that,
come on, you can do it.
Now we can for sure say that yes, you can.
They can start to picture themselves doing this some day.
Absolutely.
That's what we want.
Jennifer Doudna, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences has decided to award you
the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry to
you for the development of a method for genome editing.
It is a great honor to convey to you
my warmest congratulations and
ask you to receive the Nobel Prize.
I'm really thrilled and
delighted to be sharing this award,
this prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier, my friend,
colleague, collaborator on the CRISPR-Cas9 work
that we did together.
I want to thank everyone here and in particular,
I want to thank my family,
my husband, Jamie Cate,
my son, Andy Cate, my sisters,
Ellen Doudna who's here and
Sarah Doudna who's here on FaceTime from New York.
It's wonderful to have both of you here.
Our parents are no longer living,
but if they were and I feel they're here in spirit,
they would be thrilled today.
I just want to, again, thank everyone that's here.
It's really so wonderful
to be sharing this moment with all of you.
Thank you.
This is just an extra bonus.
The medal you cannot wear,
but these, you can eat.
Those are the very famous Nobel gold coins,
namely chocolate,
which are always on the tables at the Nobel banquet.
We are so grateful for you to receive us here today.
It's been an honor.
This is the medal and it's absolutely stunning.
It's not chocolate, right?
It's actually engraved.
It has my name and it has the year as well.
Wow. I'm opening the diploma
and it's all in Swedish,
of course, but it says that
I've received the Nobel Prize.
Thank you, again, I'm really grateful.
This is such a special event for me.
Thank you, of course, to the Nobel Committee
for all of the work,
I know you guys had to do a huge amount of work this year
probably more than usual to adjust to the circumstances.
Very grateful for that as well.
Thank you so much. This has been an honor.