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President Erdoğan receives Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar and his wife
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar and his wife, Gwen Boles Sancar, at the Presidential Complex.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Nobel laureate scientist Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar at the Presidential Complex. Sancar's wife, Gwen Boles Sancar, also attended the closed-door meeting.
Born in Mardin's Savur district, Aziz Sancar shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for his work on DNA repair mechanisms. Sancar has continued his work for many years at the University of North Carolina in the United States.
Sancar has attended various events in Türkiye in recent weeks. He delivered opening lectures for the 2026–2027 academic year at Mersin University and Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, and also attended the opening of the section of the mansion where he was born and raised in Savur that was converted into a museum.
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