Tomas Lindahl
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Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS[3] FMedSci[5] (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research.[7] In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry[8] jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.[9][10][11]
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Born | Tomas Robert Lindahl (1938-01-28) 28 January 1938 (age 86)[1] Stockholm, Sweden |
Nationality | Swedish, naturalised British (dual nationality) |
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Known for | Clarification of cellular resistance to carcinogens |
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Thesis | On the structure and stability of nucleic acids in solution (1967) |
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