For the second time in four years, a Duke researcher has won the Nobel Prize. Paul Modrich, James B. Duke professor of biochemistry, will share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute in the U.K. for the trio's work on DNA repair mechanisms.
The Chronicle's Gautam Hathi and Samantha Neal talked to students on campus to find out what they thought about Modrich's accomplishment, and how it compares with Duke's NCAA men's basketball championship in April in terms of excitement, importance and meaning to the University community.
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