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Jennifer Doudna smashes the glass ceiling with her historic recognition in chemistry. Doudna, a former CU Boulder postdoc, won the prize for co-development of the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier — the first time a science Nobel had been won by two women together.

CU Boulder boasts five Nobel laureates, four in physics and one in chemistry. Here's more on CU's scientist-celebrities.

Sometimes it's also a Nobel Prize medal

Four of CU Boulder’s five Nobel Prize winners stroll the campus together.

Telling time as we know it could change dramatically, thanks to CU-Boulder lecturer David Wineland who won the Nobel Prize in physics in October.

The factory for Nobel Prize winners on campus grew by 56,000 square feet in spring.

Computer-simulated lessons by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman.