# Aziz Sancar

> Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

*Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/aziz-sancar

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Turkey
- **Born:** 1946-09-08
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 63.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.9 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 23.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 43.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #215

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/AzizGwenSancar (@AzizGwenSancar)
- **WEBSITE**: https://sancar.org/

## Sources
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