Video: The man behind the Nobel
Posted Dec 8, 2015
About the same time Michael Jordan was sinking his national championship-winning jump shot in 1982, the groundwork was being laid for a different kind of major accomplishment at Carolina. Among those celebrating the Tar Heels’ triumph that year was Aziz Sancar, newly arrived professor in the UNC School of Medicine, who quickly fell in love with his new university, the Chapel Hill community and Carolina sports.
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