The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions in the last year and beyond. These people have made a difference in our region, state and elsewhere.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (photo/Facebook) Leave your stereotypes at home and acknowledge the land you're on at the upcoming all-Native comedy show at the ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Publisher of Science News, chatted with Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center, ahead of ...

An interview with Paul Modrich, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University. Modrich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry jointly with Tomas Lindahl of the ...

Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar honoured for mapping and explaining how cells repair their DNA and safeguard the genetic information The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas ...

See how the action and reaction unfolded as Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar shared the Nobel chemistry prize for their work showing how cells safeguard genetic information We’re bringing ...

The Nobel prize in Chemistry for 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Lawrence Modrich, and Aziz Sancar in Stockholm "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair". Lindahl was born in Stockholm, ...

Paul Modrich, who fell in love with science as a boy in Raton and went on to a storied career as a professor at Duke University, on Wednesday received a Nobel Prize for chemistry. Modrich, 69, shared ...

Yesterday the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Tomas Lindahl, Aziz Sancar, and Paul Modrich for their work in mapping out how cells repair damaged DNA. Their ...

When the Park District of Franklin Park hired Joe Modrich out of college in 1974, much of the present landscaping and infrastructure – the parkland, athletic fields and indoor facilities – were ...