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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:35.754Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Tomas Robert Lindahl was born 28 January 1938 and built a career spanning Sweden and Britain, focusing on cancer research. His work zeroed in on something counterintuitive: DNA, the molecule of heredity, is fragile and decays continually inside living cells. He mapped the molecular machinery that patches it back together, revealing repair mechanisms running silently in every organism. In 2015, that work earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar, for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. The prize recognized decades spent showing that life depends not on perfection, but on constant, invisible correction.