Prof. Dr. Oktay Sinanoğlu/ He is the youngest person in the past century to attain a status of professor

Oktay Sinanoğlu is a Turkish scientist of theoretical chemistry and molecular biology. He was the youngest person in the past century to attain a status of professor when he earned the status at the age of 28. Also, he has been nominated to Nobel award in chemistry twice. He is also one of the most successful people about protection of Turkish Language.

Biography
Sinanoğlu was born on February 25, 1935 in Bari, Italy where his father served as a consul general. In 1939 by the commence of World War II, the family returned to Turkey. In 1953, he attended the high school "TED Yenişehir Lisesi" in Ankara, and after graduating won a scholarship for education of chemistry in the USA. In 1956, he graduated from Berkeley in chemical engineering with the highest rank. In only eight months, he graduated from MIT in 1957 with the highest degree. In two years, he finished his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1960, Sinanoğlu started working as associate professor at Yale University. He theorized the "Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules" in 1962 by solving a mathematical theorem that had been unsolved for 50 years. The same year, he earned the "Alfred P. Sloan" prize. As appointed professor in 1963 at the age of only 28, he became the youngest person in the past century at Yale to attain the status as a full professor. He got his second life-long chair in Yale in Molecular Biology.
Sinanoğlu was the first to earn the Alexander von Humboldt's Science Prize in 1973. In 1975, he won the award of Japan's International Outstanding Scientist. In the 1980s, he theorized a new method from 180 theories concerning mathematics and physics, considered revolutionary, which enables chemists to predict the ways in which chemicals combine in the laboratory and to solve other complex problems in chemistry using simple pictures and periodic tables. Also, he took his place in the Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 1993, he moved to Turkey to teach at the Yıldız Teknik Universitesi, and officially retired at the age of 67. Yet his scientific researches has not ceased.
He received several international and local awards concerning his scientific and social contributions and efforts. He has been to many places including Asia and Latin America. He tried to establish strong communications between Japan, India and Turkey. Because of his efforts, he was given the title "Special Emissary" of Japan-Turkey. He worked for better education, purified language in Turkey most of his life and strived to form a conscious generation.
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His publication list :
(1) O. Sinanoglu, Viscosity of Polar Vapor Mixtures, M.S. Thesis (Chem. Eng‘s) MIT (1957).
(2) O. Sinanoglu and K.S. Pitzer, Theoretical Pre-Exponential Factors for Abstraction Reactions.J. Chem. Phys. 30, 422 (1959).
(3) O. Sinanoglu, Scattering of High Velocity Neutral Particles by an Orientation Dependent Potential.J. Chem. Phys. 30, 850 (1959).
(4) O. Sinanoglu and K.S. Pitzer, Equation of State and Thermodynamic Properties of Gases at High Temperatures, I. Diatomic Molecules.J. Chem. Phys. 31, 960 (1959).
(5) O. Sinanoglu, Intermolecular Forces and Statistical Mechanics.Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley (August 1959).
(6) O. Sinanoglu and K.S. Pitzer, Interaction Between Molecules Absorbed on a Surface.J. Chem. Phys. 32, 1279 (1960).
(7) O. Sinanoglu and R.A. Berg, Ligand Field Theory of Gas Molecules Involving the First Transition Series Elements.J. Chem. Phys. 32, 1082 (1960).
(8) O. Sinanoglu, Inter- and Intra-atomic Correlation Energies and Theory of Core-Polarization.J. Chem. Phys. 33, 1212 (1960).
(9) O. Sinanoglu and E.M. Mortensen, Core Polarization in Li2J.Chem. Phys. 34, 1078 (1961).
(10) O. Sinanoglu, Relation of Perturbation Theory to Variation Method.J. Chem. Phys. 34, 1237 (1961).
(11) O. Sinanoglu, Theory of Electron Correlation in Atoms and Molecules.Proc. Roy. Soc. (Lond.) A 260, 379 (1961).
(12) O. Sinanoglu, Perturbation Theory of Many-Electron Atoms and Molecules.Phys. Rev. 122, 493 (1961).
(13) O. Sinanoglu, Variation-Perturbation Method for Excited States.Phys. Rev. 122, 491 (1961).
(14) O. Sinanoglu, Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules.Proc. U.S. Natl. Acad. Sci. 47, 1217 (1961).
(15) O. Sinanoglu, Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules I. Shells, Electron Pairs vs. Many-Electron Correlations.J. Chem. Phys. 36, 706 (1962).
(16) O. Sinanoglu, M.S. Vardya, E.M. Mortensen and W.C. Johnson, Jr., Equilibrium Properties of Hydrogen Gas [rom 5,000 K to 20,000 K.Physics of Fluids 5, 665 (1962).
(17) O. Sinanoglu, Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules II.J. Chem. Phys. 36, 3198 (1962).
(18) O. Sinanoglu, On the Reduction of Many-Electron Problems by Perturbation Theory.J. Chem. Phys. 36, 564 (1962).
(19) O. Sinanoglu and N.R. Kestner, Study of Electron Correlation in Two Electron Systems by an Exactly Soluble Model.Phys. Rev. 128, 2687 (1962).
(20) O. Sinanoglu, Some Aspects of the Quantum Theory of Atoms, Molecules, and their Interactions.J. Phys. Chem. 66, 2283 (1962).
(21) O. Sinanoglu, Bonds and Intramoleculer Forces.J. Chem. Phys. 37, 191 (1962).
(22) O. Sinanoglu and N.R. Kestner, Effective Intermolecular Pair Potentials in Nonpolar Media.J. Chem. Phys. 38, 1730 (1963).
(23) O. Sinanoglu and V. McKoy, Theory of Dissociation Pressures of Some Gas Hydrates.J. Chem. Phys. 38, 2946 (1963).
(24) O. Sinanoglu and D.E Tuan, Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules. III. Effect of Correlation of Orbitals.J. Chem. Phys. 38, 1740 (1963).
(25) O. Sinanoglu, On the Theories of Hypochromism in Polynucleotides.Rad. Res. 20, No. 1 (1963).
(26) O. Sinanoglu, A Method for the Analysis of Many-Electron Wave********s.Rev. Mod. Phys. 35, 517 (1963).
(27) O. Sinanoglu, Many-Electron Theory of Atoms, Molecules and their Interactions.Adv. Chem. Phys. 6, 315 (1964).
(28) 0. Sinanoglu, S. Abdulnur and N.R. Kestner, Solvent Effects on Dispersion Attractions Particularly in DNA.in: Quantum Aspects of Biochemistry, B. Pullman (ed.) (Acad. Press, N.Y., 1964).
(29) O. Sinanoglu and D.F. Tuan, Quantum Theory of Atoms and Molecules.Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. Vol. 15, 251 (1964).
(31) O. Sinanoglu and S. Abdulnur, Hydrophobic Stacking of Bases and the Solvent Denaturation of DNA.J. Photochemistry and Photobiology 3, 333 (1964).
(32) 0. Sinanoglu and D.E Tuan, Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules. IV. Be Atom and its Ions.J. Chem. Phys. 41, 2677 (1964).
(33) O. Sinanoglu and D.F. Tuan, Many-Electron Thory of Atoms and Molecules. V. First Row Atoms and Their Ions.J. Chem. Phys. 41, 2683 (1964). (34) O. Sinanoglu and S. Ahdulnur, Effect of Water and Other Solvents on the Structure of Biopolymers.Federation Proc. 24, part III, s-2 (1965).
(35) BOOK: Modern Quantum Chemistry " Istanbul Lectures, 0. Sinanoglu (ed.) (Academic Press, N.Y., 1965) Intros. & Chapters containing articles by 0.S. and co-workers. (Three volumes: I - Orbitals; II - Interactions; III - Light and Organic Crystals).
(36) O. Sinanoglu and V. McKoy, Non-transferability of Inner Cores in First and Second Row Atoms and Z-dependence of Correlation Energies.in: Vol. II of Book above.
(37) O. Sinanoglu and C. Hollister, Dissociation Energies.in: vol. II of Book above.
(38) O. Sinanoglu and H. Silverstone, Electron Correlation in Non- Closed Shell Systems.in: vol. II of book above.
(39) 0. Sinanoglu, Intermolecular Forces in Gases and in Condensed Phases.in: vol. II of Book above.
(40) O. Sinanoglu and M. Orloff, Sigma and Pi Changes in Valence States of Pi Electron Theory and One Center Coulomb Repulsion Parameters.J. Chem. Phys. 43, 49 (1965).
(41) O. Sinanoglu and H.J. Silverstone, Many-Electron Theory of Non- Closed Shell Atoms and Molecules. I. Orbital Wave******** and Perturbation Theory.J. Chem. Phys. 44, #5, 1899 (1966).
(42) O. Sinanoglu and H.J. Silverstone, Many-Electron Theory of Non- Closed Shell Atoms and Molecules. II. Variational Theory.J. Chem. Phys. 44, 3608 (1966).
(43) O. Sinanoglu and N.R. Kestner, Theory of Intermolecular Potential Energy Curves - General Theory and the He - He Potential.J. Chem. Phys. 45, 194 (1965).
(44) O. Sinanoglu and M.K. Orloff, The Pi-Electron Approximation and Coulomb Repulsion Parameters in Modern Quantum Chemistry " Istanbul Lectures. I. Orbitals(Academic Press, N.Y., 1965).
(45) O. Sinanoglu and C. Hollister, Molecular Binding Energies.J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 88, 13 (1966).
(46) O. Sinanoglu, Effect of Dense Media on Intermolecular Forces.Discussions Faraday Soc. 40, 266 (1965).
(47) O. Sinanoglu and S.R. LaPaglia, Theoretical Transition Probabilities.J. Chem. Phys. 44, 1888 (1966).
(48) O. Sinanoglu, Meson Spectrum and Internal Dynamics.In: Proc. 3rd Coral Gables Conf. on Symmetry Principles at High Energy (W.H. Freeman & Co., S.F., 1966).
(49) O. Sinanoglu, Quantum Numbers and Masses of Mesons as Quark-Antiquark Interaction.Phys. Rev. 145, 4, 1205 (1966).
(50) O. Sinanoglu, Internal Dynamics of Mesons and Baryons and Non-Compact Groups in Non-Compact Groups.in: Particle Physics (Benjamin Co., N.Y., 1966).
(51) O. Sinanoglu, Hadron Spectroscopy, Dynamical Groups and Mass Formulas.in: Proc. of Istanbul " Nato Advanced Study Inst. on: Symmetry Principles in High Energy Physics (W.H. Freeman, N.Y., 1967).
(52) O. Sinanoglu, Internal Dynamics of Mesons and Baryons.in: Theoretical Physics Lectures (Univ. of Colo. Press, Boulder, 1967).
(53) O. Sinanoglu and B.Skutnik, Search for Quark in the Far Ultraviolet Solar Spectrum.Phys. Rev. Lett. 17, 785 (1966).
(54) O. Sinanoglu, Intermolecular Forces in Liquids.Adv. Chem. Phys. 12, 283 (1968).
(55) O. Sinanoglu and H.J. Silverstone, Symmetry Properties of One- and Two- Electron Correlation Functions in the Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules.J. Chem. Phys. 46, 854 (1967).
(56) O. Sinanoglu, Solvent Effects on Molecular Associations in Molecular Association.in: Biology, B. Pullman (ed.) (Academic Press, N.Y., 1968) p. 427.
(57) O. Sinanoglu and J. Cizek, Reducible and Irreducible Pair Correlations in Benzene.Chem. Phys. Lett. 1, 337 (1967).
(58) O. Sinanoglu, An Intermolecular Potential for Use in Liquids.Chem. Phys. Lett. 1, 340 (1967).
(59) O. Sinanoglu, Electron Correlation in Atoms and Molecules.Adv. Chem. Phys. 14, 237 (1968).
(60) 0. Sinanoglu and T. Shibuya, Expansion of the Density Matrix of an N-Fermion System in Terms of Correlation Densities of Fermion Clusters.J. Math. Phys. 10, 1032 (1969).
(61) O. Sinanoglu and 0. Goscinski, Upper and Lower Bounds and the Generalized Variation-Perturbation Approach of Many- Electron Theory.Intl. J. of Qu. Chem. 2, 397 (1968>.
(62) O. Sinanoglu arid T. Halicioglu, Medium Dependent Intermolecular Potential for Liquids and its Use in Obtaning Free Energy and Entropy.J. Chem. Phys. 49, 996 (1968).
(63) O. Sinanoglu and B. Skutnik, Correlations Between Tetrahedrally Localized Orbitals.Chem. Phys. Lett. 1, 699 (1968).
(64) O. Sinanoglu, B. Skutnik and I. Öksüz, Correlation Effects in the Excited States of Atoms " the ls2 2sn spm Configurations of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen.Intl. J. Qu. Chem. 2S, 1 (1968).
(65) O. Sinanoglu and T. Halicioglu, Solvent Effects on Cis-Trans, Azobenzene Isomerization " A Detailed Application of a Theory of Solvent Effects on Molecular Associations.Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 158, 308 (1969>.
(66) 0. Sinanoglu and I. Öksüz, A Theory of Atomic Structure Including Electron Correlation.Phys. Rev. Lett. 21, 507 (1968).
(67) O. Sinanoglu and J. Alper, Quantum Calculations of the Effective Inter-atomic Pairwise Interactions Showing ‘Magic Numbers‘ on Alkali Atom Clusters of Varying Shapes and Increasing Sizes.(Report, 1968>.
(68) 0. Sinanoglu and C. Trindle, Semiempirical Method for the Determination of Localized Orbitals in Molecules.J. Chem. Phys. 49, 65 (1968>.
(69) O. Sinanoglu and I. Öksüz, Theory of Atomic Structure Including Electron Correlation. I. Three Kinds of Correlation in Ground and Excited Configurations.Phys. Rev. 181, 42 (1969>.
(70) O. Sinanoglu and I. Öksüz, Theory of Atomic Structure Including Electron Correlation. II. All-external Pair Correlations in Various States and Ions of B, C, N, 0, F, Ne, and Na, and Prediction of Electron Affinities and Atomic Excitations Energies.Phys. Rev. 181, 54 (1969).
(71) 0. Sinanoglu and P. Westhaus, Theory of Atomic Structure Including Electron Correlation. III. Calculations ofMultiplet Oscillator Strengths and Comparison with Experiment for C II, N III, 0 IV, N II, 0 III, N I, 0 II and Ne II.Phys. Rev. 183, 56 (1969).
(72) O. Sinanoglu and C. Trindle, Local Orbital and Bond Index Characterization of Hybridization in Molecules.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 91, 853 (1969).
(73) O. Sinanoglu, Atomic Structure, Transition Probabilities and Theory ofElectron Correlation in Ground and Excited States.in: Atomic Physics, vol. 1 (Plenum Press, N.Y., 1969) p. 131.
(74) O. Sinanoglu and C. Trindle, Local Orbital Guide to Allowed Interconversions of C4 H7 Ions.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 91, 4054 (1969).
(75) O. Sinanoglu and P. Westhaus, Non-transferable Correlation Effects and Multiplet Oscillator Strengts for Electric Dipole Transitions in Atoms with Results on 0 II, N I, N II, N III, 0 II, 0 III, 0 IV, F II and Ne II.Astrophys. J. 157, 997 (1969).
(76) O. Sinanoglu and J. Alper, The Group R4 in Atomic Structure Theory: Hydrogenic vs. the Mathematical R4 and the Coulomb Interaction in 2sn 2pm and 3sm 3pn 3sr Configurations.Phys. Rev. 177, 77 (1969).
(77) O. Sinanoglu, A.C. Wahl, T.C. Gilbert et al., Methods for Correlation Molecules and ome Optimized Valence Configuration Results on the Diatomic Molecules Li2 , Be2 , 02 , N2 , F2 , BN, BeC, LiF, HeNe, CO and BF.Intl. J. Qu. Chem. 3S, 479 (1969).
(78) O. Sinanoglu and K. Roby, On the Performance and Parameter Problems of Approximate Molecular Orbital Theories with Comparative Calculations on the Carbon Monoxide Molecule.Intl. J. Qu. Chem. 3S, 223 (1969).
(79) O. Sinanoglu, Anomalous Effects of Electron Correlation in the Energies of Excited States.Comm. At. Molec. Phys. 1/#4, 116 (1969).
(80) O. Sinanoglu and P. Westhaus, The Structure and Transformation Properties of Correlation Functions for Open Shells of Molecules in Non-Orthoggonal AO as well as MO Bases.Intl. J. Qu. Chem. 3S, 391 (1970),
(81) O. Sinanoglu, Transition Probabilities: Theory vs. Experiment.Comm. At. Molec. Phys. II, 73 (1970).
(82) BOOK: Sigma Molecular Orbital Theory (0.S. and K.B. Wiberg. Includes chapters by many experts. Commentaries and some chapters by 0.S. and K.W.) (Yale Press, New Haven, 1970).
(83) O. Sinanoglu, Theory of Electron Correlation in Excited States and Atomic Properties in Theory of Electronic Shells of Atoms and Molecules.(Mintz, USSR, 1971) (Vilnius Symp. of 1969).
(84) 0. Sinanoglu, Oxygen Auroral Lines: New Theory and Experiment on Forbidden Transition Probabilities.Comm. At. Molec. Phys. II/#3, 79 (1970).
(85) BOOK: Three Approaches to Electron Correlation in Atoms.(Yale Press, New Haven and London, 1970> (with K.Brueckner).
(86) O. Sinanoglu and C. Nicolaides, Allowed Transition Probabilities: New Theory vs. Recent Experimental Results.Nucl. Instr. and Methods 90, 133 (1970).
(87) O. Sinanoglu, f-Values for the 3p-3D Transitions of C 1, N II and o iii and Comparison with Experiment " An Application of New Theory of Atomic Structure with Electron Correlation in Topics.in: Modern Physics, A Tribute to E. U. Gondon, (Colorado Assoc. Univ. Press, Boulder, 1971).
(88) O. Sinanoglu, Electron Correlation in N-Electron Atoms " A New Theory of Atomic Structure.in: New Directions in Atomic Physics, vol. I- Theory, Condon and Sinanoglu (eds). (Yale Press, New Haven, 1971).
(89) O. Sinanoglu and C. Nicolaides, Theoretical Transition Probabilities for the Carbon 3p-3D Isoelectronic Sequence.Phys. Lett. 33A/#3, 179 (1970).
(90) O. Sinanoglu and C. Nicolaides, Atomic Transition Probabilities " New Experimental and Theoretical Results and their Comparison.in: New Directions in Atomic Physics, vol. II- Experiment, Condon and Sinanoglu (eds.) (Yale Press, New Haven, 1971).
(91) O. Sinanoglu, Calculation of Electron Affinities Using the Non- Closed Shell Many-Electron Theory of Atomic Structure.J. de Physique, Tome 31, C4-89 (1970).
(92) O. Sinanoglu, Theory of Electron Correlation in Ground and Excited States with Application to Atomic Properties.J. de Physique, Tome 31, C4-83 (1970).
(93) O. Sinanoglu and C. Nicolaides, Transition Prohabilities from the Non-Closed Shell Many-Electron Theory of Atomic Structure.J. de Physique, Tome 31, C4-117 (1970).
(94) O. Sinanoglu, C. Nicolaides and P. Westhaus, Theory of Atomic Structure with Electron Correlation. IV. Method for Forbidden Transition Pro babilities with Results for 0 I, 0 III, N I, N II and C I.Phys. Rev. 4, 1400 (1971).
(95) O. Sinanoglu and T. Halicioglu, Intelmolecular Forces in Liquids: Comparison of the Analytic Effective Potential with the Computer Calculations of Many-Body Effects.Phys. Rev. 5, 2223 (1972).
(96) O. Sinanoglu, Potential Energy Surfaces and Reactive Scattering.Comm. At. Molec. Phys. III, 53 (1971).
(97) O. Sinanoglu and C. Nicolaides, A Proposed Correction to the Solar Abundances of Carbon and Oxygen Utilizing New Accurate Theoretical Forbidden Transition Probabilities.Solar Physics 29, 17 (1973).
(98) O. Sinanoglu, New Atomic Structure Theory and Beam-Foil Spectroscopy.Revista Mexicana de Fisica 20, 143 (1971).
(99) O. Sinanoglu and D. Herrick, The Algebra of the Non-Compact Group 0 (3,2) and the Hydrogen Atom Radial Functions.Phys. Rev. 5, 2309 (1972).
(100) O. Sinanoglu and D. Herrick, Transition Probabilities and Radial Overlaps for the Hydrogen Atom and the Algebra of the Non- Compact Group 0(3,2). Chem. Phys. Lett. 12, 310 (1971).