Meet the Winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

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The winners names of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2015 announced. The Nobel was awarded “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.  Three scientists, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar were jointly honored with this award. Mr. Lindahl is from the Francis Crick Institute, while Mr.s Modrich is from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine. Mr. Sancar is from the University of North Carolina.

Quick Facts about Nobel Chemistry Prize 2015 Awardees

Tomas Lindahl

• From :  Sweden
• Currently working at :   Francis Crick Institute, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
  
• Prize Share : 1/3
• He won this award for :  mechanistic studies of DNA repair

Paul Modrich

• From :  USA
• Currently working at :  Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, NC, USA, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
• Prize Share : 1/3
• He won this award for :  mechanistic studies of DNA repair

Aziz Sancar

• From :  Turkey
• Currently working at :  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• Prize Share : 1/3
• He won this award for :  mechanistic studies of DNA repair

This is the  Third of this week’s three top science prizes. The Academy has already announced the winners of Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine and Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2015.

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