Three Turkish-American Scientists receive the prestigious 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships
Founded in 1955, the fellowship program awards two-year, $50,000 grants to early career scientists, mathematicians, and economists to further their research by pursuing whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. Hailing from sixty-one colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, this year's fellows are conducting research in physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, and neuroscience.
The following young fellow scientists are among the winners this year:
Ahmet Yildiz – University of California – Berkeley, Physics.
Izzet Coskun – University of Illinois – Chicago, Mathematics.
Tansu Celikel – University of Southern California, Neuroscience.
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Ahmet Yildiz at TASSA 2006
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Since the establishment of the program, thirty-eight Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in their fields, while fourteen have received the Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. In addition, eight of the past thirteen winners of the John Bates Clark Medal, one of the top honors for young economists, have been Sloan Fellows.
The Sloan Research Fellowships support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic careers. The awards are funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation which was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan who was the Chairman of the Board of General Motors and the Chief Executive Officer from 1937 to 1956.
A complete list of 118 winners of 2009 awards can be found at : http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/19.