Abstract:died on March 5, 2013, of cancer nearly a month and a half before his 80th birthday, in Istanbul in his native Turkey, to which he had retired in 2006 (Figure 1). He continued to practice and recruit patients for research till his last days. He was a brilliant physician and rejuvenator in scientific research in the Middle East, most notably in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He is acclaimed to be the founder of modern biochemistry and biochemical genetics in Turkey as well as honored as the ''father of genetics'' in … Show more
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