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Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna in 2015
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For the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, US biochemist Jennifer Doudna was honored by her university with a parking space on campus.
She received an ID that guaranteed her free parking space on the grounds of the University of California at Berkeley for life.
Carol Christ, the university's chancellor, announced this at a press conference.
"I'm really delighted," said Doudna.
"After 18 years I can finally park on campus."
Reinhard Genzel is also awarded a parking space
The car park honoring for Nobel Prize winners has a long tradition at the California University.
There are very few parking spaces on campus.
The German astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, now has a lifelong right to free parking on campus.
He is a professor emeritus at Berkeley.
Biochemist Doudna received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year together with the French Emmanuelle Charpentier, who works in Berlin, for the development of gene scissors for targeted genetic modification.
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