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Miral Dizdaroglu

Miral Dizdaroglu studies DNA damage and repair. He joined NIST in 1986 as a senior scientist and became a group leader in 2000. In 2006, Dizdaroglu was promoted to a NIST Fellow. He received a diploma in chemical engineering from the University of Ankara (Turkey) and a doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe (now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Germany).

Historical photo shows Henry Moseley sitting at a desk reading a thick book, with other open books on the desk.

Henry Moseley: A Patriotic Scientist Who Changed the Periodic Table — and Then Went Off to War

February 7, 2024

At a young age, physicist Henry Moseley changed the periodic table of the elements — before dying in a bloody World War I battle.

Miral Dizdaroglu wears safety glasses as he poses in the lab next to an open spectrometer, which looks a little like a microwave with extra buttons.

How We Studied DNA Damage in Cooked Food — and What It Might Mean for Our Health

September 20, 2023

When you eat plants or meat, you’re also eating a tiny amount of that plant or animal’s DNA. But what happens to that plant or animal DNA when you cook the food

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