Our member Daron Acemoğlu won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics

Our member Daron Acemoğlu won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Our member Daron Acemoğlu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

The Nobel Prize, given for their work on “the formation of institutions and their impact on prosperity,” is considered one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the field of economics.

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By |14/10/2024|Comments Off on Our member Daron Acemoğlu won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics

Science Academy Statement on Precautionary Measures Against the Covid-19 Pandemic

Please click here to read the ”Statement on Precautionary Measures Against the Covid-19 Pandemic” issued by the Executive Board of the Science Academy.

Before being shared with the public this statement was respectfully submitted to the President, the Minister of Health, the Minister of Industry, Science and Technology, to members of the Science Board of the Ministry of Health and to the president of  TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey).

By |25/06/2020|Comments Off on Science Academy Statement on Precautionary Measures Against the Covid-19 Pandemic

Follow Up on The Soma Mining Disaster (Şebnem Düzgün & Evren Yaylacı)

A paper on the follow up of the Soma Mining disaster by H. Şebnem Düzgün and Evren D. Yaylacı, both from the Department of Mining Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Please click to read “An evaluation of Soma underground coal mine disaster with respect to risk acceptance and risk perception”.

By |18/02/2016|Comments Off on Follow Up on The Soma Mining Disaster (Şebnem Düzgün & Evren Yaylacı)

“Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case Studies” Awarded First Prize by BMA

The Science Academy members Önder Ergönül and Murat Akova are among the editors of “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case Studies”, the book awarded the first prize by British Medical Association (BMA)  in public health category. In 2014, 630 medical books were nominated to BMA medical books award, and first prize was given in 20 different medical categories. The first prize winner “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case studies” book was edited by Önder Ergönül, Füsun Can, Larry Madoff and Murat Akova. A recent review about the book was published in one of the leading infectious diseases journals, “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case Studies is …

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