Video: Feature on Nobel Prize winner Aziz Sancar Posted Sep 11, 2016 There's more to this story than Dr. Aziz Sancar's monumental achievement of winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry. This is also a story about the early dreams that lead him there. Growing up in rural Turkey in the 1950s, Aziz Sancar imagined himself playing on the Turkish national soccer team. (UNC-TV)