Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Tomas Lindahl

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Prize share: 1/3

Paul Modrich

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Prize share: 1/3

Aziz Sancar

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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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