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Also Known As Tomas Robert Lindahl
Born January 28, 1938 (age 87) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2015) • Copley Medal (2010)
Subjects Of Study DNA • DNA repair • Epstein–Barr virus • base excision repair • nucleotide

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