What is Aziz Sancar?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Aziz Sancar |image = Aziz Sancar 0060.jpg |caption = Aziz Sancar, Nobel Laureate in chemistry in Stockholm 2015 |birth_date = {{birth date |1946|09|08}} |birth_place = [[Savur]], [[Turkey]] |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = |work_places = |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] <small>(2015)</small> }} '''Aziz Sancar''' (born September 8, 1946) is a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] [[chemist]]. He received the 2015 [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Chemistry]] together with [[Tomas Lindahl]] and [[Paul Modrich]] for mechanistic studies of [[DNA repair]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/sancar-facts.html |title=Aziz Sancar-Facts|website=Nobelprize.org|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> He was born in [[Savur]], [[Turkey]]. == References == {{Reflist}} {{Nobel Prize in Chemistry}} {{Nobelprize|Chemistry}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sancar, Aziz}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Turkish scientists]] {{biography-stub}}