The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Paul Modrich

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Paul Modrich

Born: 1946

Affiliation at the time of the award: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, NC, USA, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

Prize motivation: "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"

Prize share: 1/3

omas Lindahl

Photo: Cancer Research UK

Tomas Lindahl

Born: 1938, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation at the time of the award: Francis Crick Institute, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"

Prize share: 1/3

Aziz Sancar

Photo: M. Englund, UNC-School of Medicine

Aziz Sancar

Born: 1946, Savur, Turkey

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Prize motivation: "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"

Prize share: 1/3