The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
Awarded on: 2015-10-07
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
Affiliations:
- Francis Crick Institute – Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Clare Hall Laboratory – Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Tomas Lindahl
Born: 1938-01-28 in Stockholm, Sweden
Gender: male
Field: Swedish-British scientist
Biography
Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.