Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Photo: Cancer Research UK

Tomas Lindahl

Prize share: 1/3

Photo: K. Wolf/AP Images for HHMI

Paul Modrich

Prize share: 1/3

Photo: M. Englund, UNC-School of Medicine

Aziz Sancar

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".

 

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 
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