"I had a teacher that didn't like me and I didn't like him. At the end of the year he decided to fail me. The ironic thing is that the topic was chemistry. I have the distinction of being the only chemistry laureate who failed the topic in high school!"

– Tomas Lindahl pic.twitter.com/2WdJV8T6zJ

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) January 28, 2024

Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS FMedSci is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Wikipedia

Born: 1938 (age 86 years), Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden

Education: Karolinska Institute (1985–1990), The Rockefeller University, Princeton University

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal, Royal Medal