@article{article_282162, title={The Emergence of a new scientific discipline in Turkey: Genetics at Istanbul University after the 1933 University Reform}, journal={Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari (Studies in Ottoman Science)}, volume={18}, pages={53–70}, year={2016}, author={Ersöz, Barışcan}, keywords={Türkiye’de genetik,1933 Üniversite Reformu,Alfred Heilbronn,Curt Kosswig,Atıf Şengün,Sara Akdik,Melekper Öktay,Nebahat Yakar,Recai Ermin,Nezihe Öztan}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:1cm;line-height:normal;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">The
years between 1933 when Istanbul University was fundamentally reformed and the 1960s,
constituted the period when the first geneticists in Turkey carried out their
research and contributed to the formation and institutionalization of a new
scientific discipline. Almost all of this first genetics research in Turkey was
conducted at the Faculty of Science, Istanbul University. After the University
Reform, German geneticists who came to Turkey due to Nazi oppression, made
important contributions to scientific research as well as to the training of
the first researchers in genetics. The first researches were launched by Alfred
Heilbronn in 1935 at the Institute of Pharmacobotany and Genetics. Subsequently,
research at the Zoological Institute begun in 1937 when Curt Kosswig came to
Turkey as the director of the institute. These scientists, together with their local
assistants and students, undertook numerous studies on several questions of
genetics such as sex determination mechanisms, secondary sexual characters and
genetic mechanisms of tumor formation. Alongside their scientific studies, they
also gave lectures on genetics and they wrote some of the first genetics
textbooks in Turkey. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}