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Also known as Tomas R. Lindahl, Tomas Robert Lindahl

Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist

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Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish geneticist, chemist, and physician born in Stockholm on January 28, 1938. He has worked as a professor at the University of Gothenburg, Linköping University, and the Francis Crick Institute. Lindahl studied at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University. His professional interests include chemistry and DNA repair.

He is a member of the Royal Society, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Academia Europaea. His awards include the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Copley Medal, the Royal Medal, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society. He speaks English and was influenced by Walter Bodmer.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2015

    “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”

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Official website

Tomas Lindahl - Linköpings universitet

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Tomas
Gender
male
Citizenship
Sweden
Place of birth
Stockholm
Occupation
chemist
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
professor
Field of work
DNA repair
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Tomas Lindahl 0113.jpg
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date of birth
1938-01-28
Commons category
Tomas Lindahl
name in native language
Tomas Robert Lindahl
birth name
Tomas Robert Lindahl
email address
mailto:[email protected]
influenced by
Walter Bodmer
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Tomas Robert Lindahl (born 28 January 1938) 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.

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