Thursday, 8 October 2015

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar won nobel prize in which field?

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar won nobel prize in which field?

Otpions

1) chemistry

2) physics

3) economics

4) peace

answer

1) chemistry

Other details

Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar were awarded the prize for having discovered how cells repair their DNA

Tomas Robert Lindahl  is a Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Lawrence Modrich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973, and attended MIT as an undergraduate.He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and the circadian clock.