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Aziz Sancar
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Aziz Sancar, Nobel Laureate in chemistry in Stockholm 2015
Born (1946-09-08)September 8, 1946
Savur, Turkey
Awards Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015)

Aziz Sancar (born September 8, 1946) is a Turkish chemist. He received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

He was born in Savur, Turkey.

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    Savur district of Mardin Province, Turkey

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    Istanbul University - Faculty of Medicine

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