University Of North Carolina Honors Trio Of Nobel Prize Laureates for Chemistry

CHAPEL HILL, NC - OCTOBER 7: Aziz Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, stands in a corner to congratulate Paul Modrich, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University, for their joint 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a press conference on October 7, 2015 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Their award, for for mechanistic studies of DNA repair, is also being shared with Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory in the UK. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)