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Aziz Sancar
Full Name of the recipient | Aziz Sancar |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 2015 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Tomas Lindahl (33.3%) Paul Modrich (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for mechanistic studies of DNA repair |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
Place of Birth | Savur, Turkey TUR |
Date of Birth | 8 September 1946 |
Age at the time of Award | 68 years |