Nobel Prize in Chemistry given for "DNA repair"
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers of "DNA repair" – Swede Thomas Lindahl, US citizen Paul Modric and Turkish American Aziz Sankar, the organizing committee said in a statement published on Wednesday, October 7.
Screenshot of the Nobel Prize video/Youtube – VM.
The researchers were awarded the prize "for the study of DNA repair mechanisms". "Their work provided fundamental knowledge about the functions of living cells and, for example, about their use in new methods of fighting cancer," the Nobel Committee said in a press release.
Scientists were able to "display at the molecular level how cells repair damaged DNA and preserve genetic information," the report says.
On October 6, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the Physics Prize for 2015. They were Canadian Arthur B. McDonald and Japanese Takaaki Kaita.
Scientists received a prize for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. They made a decisive contribution to conducting experiments that proved the metamorphosis of neutrinos, which is possible only if neutrinos have mass. "For particle physics, this was a historic discovery that could be decisive for our understanding of the universe," the Nobel Committee said in a press release.
On October 5, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was also awarded. Its laureates were three scientists – William Campbell, a native of Ireland, Satoshi Omure, a Japanese, and Yu Tu, a Chinese woman. They have received awards for research in the field of combating malaria and parasitic infections.
Most of the winners of the awards will be presented on December 10 in Stockholm. The amount of the award this year will be 8 million Swedish kronor ($962,000). The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo.
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07.10.2015