Science and technology in Turkey
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Science and Technology in Turkey is central planned by TÜBİTAK and in responsibility of universities and research institutes. R&D activities in Turkey show a significant jump in late years.[1]
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History[edit]
Ottoman Empire[edit]
Main article: Science and Technology in the Ottoman Empire
Modern Turkey[edit]
Main article: Timeline of science and technology in the Islamic world
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Institutions[edit]
See also: List of universities in Turkey
See also: Education in Turkey
- Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
- Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA)
Research Institutes and Organisations[edit]
- Feza Gürsey Institute
- Turkish Atomic Energy Authority
- Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology
- Defense Industries Research and Development Institute
- Marmara Research Center
- Space Technologies Research Institute
- National Metrology Institute
- Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center
- Turkish Mathematical Society
- Turkish Physical Society
- Turkish Chemical Society
- Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences
- Technology Development Foundation of Turkey
Technical Universities[edit]
There are six 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)
- Bursa Technical University (2010)
- Erzurum Technical University (2010)
Technology Universities[edit]
- Adana University of Science and Technology
- Gebze Institute of Technology
- İzmir Institute of Technology
- TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Scientific fields[edit]
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Notable scientists from Turkey[edit]
Main article: List of Turkish Philosophers and scientists
- 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
See also[edit]
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