A Nobel week: Aziz Sancar receives his honor in Sweden

Posted Dec 10, 2015
More than two months after being awoken by a phone call from Sweden to inform him that he had won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Aziz Sancar has been presented with his Nobel Medal. Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, traveled to Stockholm this week to receive the honor from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (UNC.edu)

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