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Tomas Lindahl

1938 - Today

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Tomas Robert Lindahl (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomas Lindahl is the 49th most popular biologist (up from 137th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 156th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Biologist. Learn more about Tomas Lindahl's academic impact at Rankless.

Tomas Lindahl is most famous for his work in the field of DNA repair. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work in DNA repair.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Tomas Lindahl ranks 49 out of 1,097. Before him are Ada Yonath, Richard Henderson, Peter Simon Pallas, Harald zur Hausen, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and Nikolaas Tinbergen. After him are Irwin Rose, Charles Richet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, Karl Ernst von Baer, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Tomas Lindahl ranks 25. Before him are Albert Fert, Klaus Schwab, Joe Dassin, Luis Aragonés, J. J. Cale, and Bob Kahn. After him are Giuliano Gemma, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Paul Verhoeven, Vladimir Vysotsky, Mireille Darc, and Jim Simons.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Tomas Lindahl ranks 71 out of 1,879. Before him are Kai Siegbahn (1918), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Astrid of Sweden (1905), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), Henning Mankell (1948), and Arne Tiselius (1902). After him are Dolph Lundgren (1957), Gunnar Myrdal (1898), Charles VIII of Sweden (1409), Charles XI of Sweden (1655), Magnus I of Sweden (1106), and Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Tomas Lindahl ranks 2. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707). After him are Hugo Theorell (1903), Svante Pääbo (1955), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Adam Afzelius (1750), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Jacob Georg Agardh (1813).

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