Science and technology in Turkey
Science and technology in Turkey is centrally planned by TÜBİTAK and in responsibility of universities and research institutes. Research and development activities in Turkey show a significant jump in recent years.[1]
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History
Ottoman Empire
Modern Turkey
Institutions
- Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
- Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA)
Research Institutes
- Atomic Energy Authority
- Defense Industries Research and Development Institute
- Informatics and Information Security Research Center
- Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology
- Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center
- Marmara Research Center
- Nanotechnology Research and Application Center
- National Magnetic Resonance Research Center
- National Metrology Institute
- National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology
- Space Technologies Research Institute
Technical Universities
There are seven universities in Turkey which are dedicated to engineering, technology and sciences.
- Istanbul Technical University (1773)
- Yıldız Technical University (1911)
- Karadeniz Technical University (1955)
- Middle East Technical University (1956)
- Gebze Technical University (1992)
- Bursa Technical University (2010)
- Erzurum Technical University (2010)
Technology Universities
Notable scientists from Turkey
- Cahit Arf, mathematician, known for the Arf invariant
- Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist, known for reporting the Behçet's disease
- Feza Gürsey, physicist
- Erdal İnönü, physicist, winner of the 2004 Wigner Medal
- Muzafer Sherif, psychologist, one of the founders of social psychology
- Oktay Sinanoğlu, chemist
- Aziz Sancar, chemist, awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Gazi Yaşargil, neurosurgeon, known as the father of microneurosurgery
- Celâl Şengör, geologist, known for tectonics of Turkey and Asia
- Sabri Ergun, chemical engineer, known with Ergun equation
- Dilhan Eryurt, astrophysicist, worked on the Apollo program
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