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READING & WRITING

1 READING

a Look at the picture and answer the following questions.
1. Who is the well-known person in the photo? What
do you know about him?
2. Where do you think the people are in the photo?
3. What are they doing?

BEYOND THE WALLS

When Aziz Sancar started his education, he had nothing but his passion and belief. Today, everyone in
the 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.

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