And the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry is out:
BREAKING NEWS The 2015 #NobelPrize in Chemistry is awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar: pic.twitter.com/mlgE5R2ZFc
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 Swedish Tomas Lindahl 1/3 #NobelPrize in Chemsitry @TheCrick pic.twitter.com/0rfzsWbaQz
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 American Paul Modrich 1/3 #NobelPrize in Chemistry @HMINEWS @DukeU pic.twitter.com/QAysde4VnD
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 American and Turkish Aziz Sancar 1/3 #NobelPrize in Chemistry @UNC pic.twitter.com/pwCnH5QJBX
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 For the uninitiated, here’s what it is about:
The structure of DNA was presented in April 1953 and #NobelPrize awarded in 1962. pic.twitter.com/YCQlO5YCux
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 #NobelPrize 2015 Chemistry Laureate Tomas Lindahl’s discoveries concern base excision repair: pic.twitter.com/qdkZM4albm
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 #NobelPrize 2015 Chemistry Laureate Aziz Sancar has mapped the mechanism that cells use to repair UV damage to DNA: pic.twitter.com/yuNrYFWJPg
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 #NobelPrize 2015: Paul Modrich showed how cells correct errors occurring when DNA is replicated during cell division: pic.twitter.com/seI2wMHkAV
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2015 Sweden Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and US-Turkish national Aziz Sancar will share 8 million Swedish kronor (about £635,000).
Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi, joint winner of last year’s Nobel peace prize, has offered his congratulations to the new Chemistry laureates:
Congratulations to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for being awarded the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2015. pic.twitter.com/DzrH73Nc1s
— Kailash Satyarthi (@k_satyarthi) October 7, 2015 
