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... This work led to investigations of radiation effects on viruses and microbial cells. Abler teaching Physics and Biophysics for a number of years he moved to the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he and his colleagues discovered Nucleotide Excision Repair-the first DNA repair mechanism that worked in the dark.
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... He has received an outstanding investigator award from the National Cancer Institute and in 1989 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is presently a member of the Board on Radiation Effects Research in the National Research Council.
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