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  "en": "Aziz Sancar — Nobel Prize facts page"
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  "ar": "صفحة وقائع جائزة نوبل عن عزيز سانجار: وُلد في ساوور بتركيا سنة 1946، ونال جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء سنة 2015 مع توماس ليندال وبول مودريتش لدراساتهم الآلية لإصلاح الحمض النووي.",
  "en": "Nobel Prize facts page for Aziz Sancar: born in Savur, Turkey, in 1946; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, shared with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich, for mechanistic studies of DNA repair."
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  "URL": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2015/sancar/facts/",
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  "reliability_note": "The award body's own record: birth (8 September 1946, Savur, Turkey), affiliation at the time of the award (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA), prize motivation ('for mechanistic studies of DNA repair') and prize share (1/3), plus its short life and work summaries (lower-middle-class family; parents uneducated but valuing education; Istanbul University and the University of Texas at Dallas doctorate, 1977; professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; married to Gwen Boles Sancar; the 1983 bacterial studies showing how repair enzymes fix ultraviolet-damaged DNA). Read as opened on 24 Oct 2026.",
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