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Tomas Lindahl

Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist

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Tomas Robert Lindahl 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.

Quick facts

Born
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Place of birth
Stockholm wd
Citizenship
Sweden wd
Occupation
geneticist, chemist, physician wd
Education
Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University wd

Awards wd

  • Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Copley Medal (2010)
  • Royal Medal (2007)
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015)
  • EMBO Membership
  • Prix International de l’INSERM (2008)
  • honorary doctor of the University of Gothenburg
  • Croonian Medal and Lecture (1996)
  • Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998)
  • Fellow of the AACR Academy (2017)
  • H. M. The King's Medal
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)

Questions

When was Tomas Lindahl born?
Tomas Lindahl was born on 28 January 1938 in Stockholm.
Where did Tomas Lindahl study?
Tomas Lindahl was educated at Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Tomas Lindahl · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q1886068 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Tomas Lindahl 0113.jpg by Holger Motzkau (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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