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BEYOND THE WALLS
 When Aziz Sancar started his education, he had nothing but his passion and belief. Today, everyone inthe world is in agreement with the opinion that Aziz Sancar is a remarkable and successful scientist. He tried very hard to achieve this success. He is married to Gwen Boles Sancar. They live in America. He founded Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation with his wife. He loves and believes in his country and wants to help young scientists. Prof. Sancar and his wife support and host Turkish researchers and scholars in the United States. Aziz Sancar was born in Mardin, Turkey in 1946. He was the seventh of eight children. His parents were illiterate, but the education of their children was very important to them. Aziz completed his primary and secondary education in Mardin. He played football during his school life. However, he decided to go to university, so he stopped playing it after a while. He studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul University. After his graduation with a first class degree, he returned to Mardin and worked as a doctor. One and a half year later, TUBITAK awarded him a scholarship and he completed his doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Texas. During his education, he had some difficulties in communicating and adapting to the social life in the United States. Because of that, he didn’t stay there for a long time and returned to Mardin one more time.Sancar didn’t give up his dreams though. He went back to the States and worked at Yale University for five years. Then the University of North Carolina accepted him as a lecturer. After a series of great academic successes, including being a member of National Academy of Sciences as the first Turkish-American, he received the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his studies on DNA repair. Prof. Sancar thinks that he owes his success to the founder of Turkish Republic, so he donated the prize to the mausoleum of Atatürk, Anıtkabir. Looking at his former living conditions, nobody expected such a great success from him. However, he showed that everything is possible when you believe and work hard.