Nobel Prize medals go on display in Davis Library

Posted Apr 18, 2016
On Wednesday, the first floor of Davis Library was filled with students, but instead of having their eyes glued to laptop screens or textbooks, the students gazed at the Nobel Prize medals of Aziz Sancar and Oliver Smithies.The medals of UNC’s two Nobel laureates will be on display in Davis Library for one year as a part of the “Be Inspired: Carolina’s Nobel Laureates” exhibit. (Daily Tar Heel)

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