Today’s technology opens the way for scientific research that was conducted years ago but did not produce results. These studies shed light on the future. Finally, there has been an important development in the world of physics. So much so that Turkish physicist Furkan Öztürk revealed the mystery that science could not solve for 175 years and received an award.
Furkan Öztürk revealed the mystery that the scientific world could not solve for 175 years.
According to TRT Haber, Turkish physicist Furkan Öztürk won the “Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber” award from Harvard University Physics Department. This award is given to a small number of doctoral students who conduct outstanding research in experimental and theoretical fields.
French chemist Louis Pasteur introduced the concept of “homocrality” in 1848, stating that molecules that are mirror images of each other, just like the left and right hands, are necessary for life. However, the origin of these molecules remained a mystery in the scientific world for a long time.
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Furkan Öztürk made a discovery that shed light on the origins of this mysterious phenomenon, 175 years after Pasteur’s observations. Thus, it became easier to understand why and how homochiral molecules were formed.
Öztürk’s work was described as “groundbreaking” by Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Jack Szostak and was evaluated by the scientific community as discoveries that will shed light on the beginning of life on Earth and in space. We should also note that the research was published in the most prestigious science journals.
He will establish his own laboratory
Öztürk emphasized that despite the difficulties he encountered during the research process, he did not lose his motivation and that this process was a journey of both learning and discovery for him. He also made an important statement.
After receiving his doctorate degree, Öztürk plans to open his own laboratory and continue his research focusing on the origins of life. Öztürk, who will defend his thesis, which includes his studies focusing on homochirality, at the end of this month, aims to receive his doctorate degree from Harvard University’s Department of Physics.
Harvard University Astronomy Department Lecturer Prof. Dr. Dimitar Sasselov made the following statement on the subject;
“Furkan is one of the most creative students I have seen in my 25-year career as a professor at Harvard. His creative intelligence and determination played a major role in the success of this work. Öztürk’s work offers, for the first time in history, a complete recipe for how the basic building blocks that make up life are formed. These basic building blocks are, of course, amino acids and nucleotides. Thanks to the table that emerged as a result of these discoveries and the recipe that this table revealed, it was shown how functional polymers such as proteins and RNA can be formed from homochiral amino acids and nucleotides. Of course, this is not a recipe limited only to the world. “We can imagine this could happen on any planet with conditions similar to those on early Earth.”