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Aziz Sancar

1946 - Today

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Aziz Sancar (Turkish: [aˈziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aziz Sancar has received more than 825,687 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Aziz Sancar is the 213th most popular chemist (up from 214th in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 425th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Chemist.

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  • 66.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Aziz Sancar ranks 213 out of 602. Before him are John Fenn, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Gerhard Herzberg, Wallace Carothers, Friedrich Sertürner, and Satoshi Ōmura. After him are Antoni Grabowski, Alan J. Heeger, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Donald J. Cram, Stephanie Kwolek, and Franz Karl Achard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Aziz Sancar ranks 105. Before him are Jean Todt, Demetris Christofias, Robert Reich, Claudia Goldin, Kim Kyong-hui, and Pete Postlethwaite. After him are Deepak Chopra, Edita Gruberová, Marisa Paredes, Georges J. F. Köhler, Elías Figueroa, and Issa Hayatou.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Aziz Sancar ranks 351 out of 1,347. Before him are Ebussuud Efendi (1490), Gevherhan Sultan (1544), Zenodotus (-330), Ahmet Davutoğlu (1959), Mammes of Caesarea (259), and Artaphernes (-600). After him are Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (1845), Gülçiçek Hatun (1355), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (100), Boris II of Bulgaria (931), Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha (1637), and Fan Noli (1882).

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Among CHEMISTS In Türkiye

Among chemists born in Türkiye, Aziz Sancar ranks 1. 

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