Feryal Ozel on Blackholes: BBC News (8.1.2016)
The Science Academy member Feryal Ozel was interviewed on blackholes by BBC News.
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The Science Academy member Feryal Ozel was interviewed on blackholes by BBC News.
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From 2016, The Science Academy is starting a series of Annual Lectures by eminent natural and social scientists and scholars in humanities.
The first lecture will be given by reknowned astrophysicist Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who is best known for discovering pulsars, one of the most significant scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
“An introduction to pulsars – throwing some light on gravity and relativity”
4.2.2016 – 16:00
Boğaziçi University – Albert Long Hall
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The following scientists were elected as Science Academy members at the General Assembly on 19.12.2015
Özgür Barış Akan, , Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koç University
Erdal Arıkan, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University
Deniz Kırık, Neuroscience, Lunds University
Mehmet Kobya, Environmental Sciences, Gebze Technical University
Orhan Yenigün, Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University
The Science Academy member Ayşe Buğra was awarded The World Academy of Sciences 2015 Celso Furtado Award for her contribution to research on social policy in emerging developing economies and globally, with a critical perspective on state-society-market relations in Turkey.
The Science Academy member Feryal Özel became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. For further details please click.
The Nature article by Alison Abbott on the İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center can be viewed here. The director of IBG is the Science Academy member Prof Mehmet Öztürk.
Ankara
October 10, 2015
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Biologist Aziz Sancar who is originally from Turkey won the Nobel prize for mapping and explaining how cells repair their DNA and safeguard the genetic information. He shares the Nobel prize with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich.
The Science Academy member Ünal Tekinalp will be honoured with a symposium to be held on October 9, 2015 hosted by Bilgi University, İstanbul.
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The Science Academy member Metin Gürses will be honoured for his 70th birthday with a symposium to be held on October 16, 2015 hosted by Bilkent University, Ankara.
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