“We count ourselves very lucky to know Dr. Sancar as a brilliant scientist and a wonderful person. On permanent display in the Brettell Reading Room is a gold-plated bronze replica of Sancar’s Nobel medallion, which he presented to UT Dallas during a campus visit in 2023. UT Dallas President Richard C. Benson, the Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership, emphasized Sancar’s influence on future generations. Aziz Sancar received the UT Dallas Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009 and was named the University’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2018. Dr. Johann Deisenhofer, a professor emeritus of biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1988, also attended the UT Dallas event.