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Oktay Sinanoglu

Oktay Sinanoğlu (25 February 1935 – 19 April 2015) was an internationally renowned Turkish physical chemist and molecular biophysicist.

Sinanoğlu was born in Bari, Italy on February 25, 1935 to Nüzhet Haşim and Rüveyde (Karacabey) Sinanoğlu. His father was a consular official under the Consul General Atıf Kor in the Bari Consulate of Turkey, and a writer. He wrote a book on Greek and Roman Mythology, and another one titled "Petrarca", published in 1931, stating in its preface: "The best way (for Turkey) is adopting the Western culture." Following his father's recall to Turkey in July 1938, the family returned to Turkey before the start of World War II. He had a sister, Esin Afşar (1936-2011), who became a well-known singer and actress.

Sinanoğlu graduated from TED Ankara Koleji in 1951. He went to the United States in 1953, where he studied in University of California, Berkeley graduating with a BSc degree with highest honors in 1956. The following year, he completed his MSc at MIT (1957), and was aw

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Oktay Sinanoğlu: A prominent chemist and Turkish patriot

Turkey has suffered a brain drain for decades. Though migration is nothing new for Turkey because it welcomed migrants from all neighboring countries during and after the collapse of the Ottoman state and sent millions of workers to European countries beginning with the 1960s, the reverse migration of the educated population has always been a loss of social and cultural capital for the country. Turkey has deliberately sent students abroad to participate in advanced studies in their fields and return back to promote the scientific and vocational culture of Turkey with acquisitions they have gained in the target country.

Yet, some chose to stay abroad in spite of the fact that a vast majority returned back. Among those who have chosen the greater employment opportunities available in the destination locations, some individuals such as Aziz Sancar, who received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Oktay Sinanoğlu accomplished tremendous scientific breakthroughs. The fact Sancar and late Sinanoğlu expressed their patriot

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Oktay Sinanoğlu, professor emeritus of chemistry and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and a member of the Yale faculty for 37 years, died on April 19 at age 80.

Oktay Sinanoğlu

An internationally renowned researcher who was known as “The Turkish Einstein,” Sinanoğlu lived in the Emerald Lakes neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and in Istanbul, Turkey with his wife, Dilek Sinanoğlu, and their twins.

“Sinanoğlu’s greatest scientific contributions were in the 1960s, when he developed a theory of the electronic structure of molecules,” said Yale Sterling Professor of Chemistry John Tully. “Whereas the behavior of electrons is governed by the Schroedinger Equation, this equation is essentially impossible to solve except for systems with very few electrons. The difficulty is that, in contrast to what is taught in introductory chemistry classes, electrons do not move independently in their own orbitals. Rather, they interact with each other such that their motions are correlated. Methods to address this ‘election correlation’ problem are still being developed today