Nobel prize in chemistry shared by three researchers

BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (KUNA) -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden decided Wednesday to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to two US-based and one UK-based scientists for their work that could be used for cancer treatment.
The three are, Tomas Lindahl of Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK, Paul Modrich Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA and Aziz Sancar University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Sancar is of Turkish origin.
The Academy in a press release said they were awarded the Nobel Prize for "having mapped, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the genetic information." "Their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatment," it added.
Chemistry was the most important science for the founder of the prize Alfred Nobel's own work. The development of his inventions as well as the industrial processes he employed were based upon chemical knowledge. Chemistry was the second prize area that Nobel mentioned in his will. (end) nk.tg