Three awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for DNA repair studies
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 5:58 AM EDT
Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their studies of DNA repair.
They shared the prize of 8 million Swedish kronor (around $960,000). The prize was announced by Goran K. Hansson, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded the prize.
They joined the 169 laureates, including Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie and Linus Pauling, who have been honored with the prize since 1901. (One of them, Frederick Sanger, won twice.)
This week’s three Nobel Prizes reflect the globalization of science, which the United States often dominated in the last century. The award in medicine or physiology on Monday went to citizens of China and Japan, as well as an American. The physics prize on Tuesday went to experts in Japan and Canada.
Wednesday’s prize in chemistry — Dr. Lindahl was born in Sweden, and Dr. Sancar in Turkey — sustained the global trend.
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