Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the mechanism of DNA repair – RBC

The Nobel committee called the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Stockholm. DNA repair, for the study of the mechanisms which Lindahl, Modric and Sankar received awards, a special function of the cells, which lies in their ability to correct chemical damage and breaks in DNA molecules.

In a press release of the Nobel Committee noted, that the work of Lindahl, Modrica and Sankara helped to understand how to operate the cell, and their discoveries are used to create new drugs to combat cancer.

Earlier this week were named winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine and physics. They were started by William Campbell and Satoshi Omura (for the development of drugs carried by parasitic worms) and Tu Yu (for the discovery of artemisinin, which helps fight malaria). Laureates in Physics have become Takaaki Kadzito Arthur McDonald, who discovered the process of neutrino oscillations, which indicates that the elementary particle has a mass of neutrinos.

From 1901 to 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given 106 times. 63 people became laureates no one split of premiums in this area. Women received a high award four times. English biochemist Frederick Sanger – the only scientist in history, won two Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958 and 1980). The youngest Nobel laureate in chemistry in the history of the award – a French scientist Frederic Joliot-Curie, received the award in 35 years. The oldest Nobel laureate in chemistry in the history of the award – American scientist John Bennett Fenn, received the award in 85 years. The average age of the laureate in chemistry – 58 years.