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A rare case where the list of awards she's received is so long it needs a separate Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_rece...

Walter Isaacson's book "The Code Breaker" is about this subject. I couldn't put it down.

All his books are like that. The Innovators is my personal favorite.

A darker passage in the history of gene editing, but still an interesting story and something not to forget:

Also

They shared the Nobel prize for CRISPR. Yet you chose to lead with the American one. :/

That's because the link I shared immediately cites Doudna and Charpentier as a team.

After edits were disabled, I thought perhaps there's a page for Charpentier too, which there was, but later than i could edit.

They're both amazing scientists.

She's got a couple of great appearances on RadioLab.