Tomas Robert Lindahl(born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising incancer research.In 2015, he was awarded theNobel Prize in Chemistryjointly with American chemistPaul L. ModrichandTurkishchemistAziz Sancarfor mechanistic studies ofDNA repair. Fields: Cancer research, DNA repair, [5] Education: Karolinska Institutet PhD