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Aziz Sancar

Biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

Turkey / United States · b. 1946

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Biochemist at the University of North Carolina who mapped the nucleotide excision repair mechanism by which cells correct ultraviolet damage to DNA. Shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 102 other answers →

I am of course honoured to get this recognition for all the work I’ve done over the years, but I’m also proud for my family and for my native country and my adopted country, and especially for Turkey it’s quite important.

Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize, 7 October 2015 source ↗

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