List of Famous people with last name Sancar

Aziz Sancar

First Name Aziz

Last Name Sancar

Born on September 8, 1946 (age 77)

Born in Mardin Province

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

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Mithat Sancar

First Name Mithat

Born on November 30, 1962 (age 61)

Born in Mardin Province

Mithat Sancar is a Turkish professor of public and constitutional law, columnist and translator. He has been an MP for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament since the June 2015 general election and was elected Co-Chair of the party in February 2020.

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