The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Turkey
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkish Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 509 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Turkey. This makes Turkey the birth place of the 35th most number of Chemists behind Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Chemists of all time. This list of famous Turkish Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Aziz Sancar (1946 - )
With an HPI of 59.79, Aziz Sancar is the most famous Turkish Chemist. His biography has been translated into 65 different languages on wikipedia.
Aziz Sancar (Turkish: [aˈziz ˈsandʒaɾ]; born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field. Sancar is currently the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation, which is a non-profit organization to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the United States.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as chemists born between 1946 and 1946. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chemists include Aziz Sancar.
