Thomas Robert Lindahl [2] ( Swede. Tomas Robert Lindahl , born January 28, 1938 , Stockholm ) is a Swedish-British biochemist and researcher of cancer diseases . In 2015, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Aziz Sanjar and Paul Modric with the wording “for research on the mechanisms of DNA repair ” [3] .
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In 1964-1967, in graduate school at Princeton University (PhD, 1967). In 1967-1969 in post-doctoral studies at Rockefeller University in New York . In the years 1969-1977 at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (received a diploma of a doctor in 1971, then a researcher). In the years 1977-1981 - at the Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Gothenburg .
Since 1981 - Researcher at the Imperial Cancer Research Foundation in London . After retirement in 2009, he headed the laboratory of this foundation in Hertfordshire . Naturalized British citizen.
His wife is a biochemist Alice Adams ( English Alice Adams ) [4] , co-author of several publications T. Lindala.
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Awards
- Gold Medal of His Majesty the King of the 12th size on the ribbon of flowers of the Order of the Seraphim (sGM12mserafb) (2007)
- Copley Medal (2010)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015)
Social activities
In 2016, he signed a letter calling for Greenpeace , the United Nations, and governments around the world to stop the fight against genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) [5] [6] [7] .
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- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Lindal // Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov . - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
- ↑ Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for DNA repair // Lenta.Ru
- ↑ Jesse Kauffman "Elusive Alliance: The World Occupation of Poland in World War I"
- ↑ 107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs
- ↑ Laureates Letter Supporting Precision Agriculture (GMOs)
- ↑ List of Nobel laureates who signed the letter
Links
- Thomas Lindal on the website of the Nobel Committee