Advice from Aziz Sancar to Young People Who Want to Become a Scientist

Successful scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015, Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar gave important advice to young people who want to be scientists at an event he attended. In a different event he attended before, Turkish youth said ‘don’t do what i didAziz Sancar, who advised them to return to Turkey even if they went abroad, this time talked about ‘being a scientist’.

Sancar, who participated in the ADFVisitorsCorner (Visitor’s Corner) application of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF), where experts voiced their opinions on issues that are of close interest to the public, with a video message. that science is hard work and stated that young people should be stubborn.

‘Get ready for disappointment’

To young people who dream of becoming scientists in the future.Science is a grueling business. 80 to 90 percent of experiments don’t work. You have to be stubborn, work hard, follow scientific technology. What’s going on in the world of science If you apply it to your work, you will be successful.Sancar, calling out ”The hardest part of formulating a hypothesis and performing experiments to prove it is that in 80 percent to 90 percent of cases, either the hypothesis is wrong or the experiments don’t work.He mentioned the difficulty of scientific studies.

Being a scientist requires getting used to disappointment and this is extremely important; Stating that we should not give up afterwards, Sancar said, ”Be prepared to be very disappointed. Actually at this point many get discouraged and quit science‘ he summed up the situation. Sancar also stated that he overcame the obstacles he faced by being stubborn and constantly making new experiments.

Explaining the contribution of the development of technology to science with examples, Sancar said, ”in science asking the right question and at the same time it is important that you follow the technology. You can’t answer the question unless there is technologyHe emphasized the importance of technology.