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1979 Herbert C. Brown Ve Georg Wittig 1985 Herbert A. Hauptman Ve 2018-2019 Güz yarıyılı Kimya Tarihi Sunum Konuları No Adı SoyADI Yıl Bilim Adamları Sunum Tarihi 1 10024056 Emrullah Müldür 1977 Ilya Prigogine 11.12.2018 2 11024105 Metehan Çelebioğlu 1978 Peter D. Mitchell 11.12.2018 3 13024076 Ekin Karaman 1979 Herbert C. Brown ve Georg Wittig 11.12.2018 4 13024099 Nadin İpekli 1980 Paul Berg Walter Gilbert ve Frederick Sanger 11.12.2018 5 14024003 Duygu Öztürk 1981 Kenichi Fukui ve Roald Hoffmann 11.12.2018 6 15024018 Mine Aybike Ersin 1982 Aaron Klug 11.12.2018 7 15024026 Selen Ege Kırbaş 1983 Henry Taube 11.12.2018 8 15024038 Deniz karadeniz 1984 Robert Bruce Merrifield 11.12.2018 9 15024056 M.Alper Ataman 1985 Herbert A. Hauptman ve Jerome Karle 11.12.2018 10 15024057 Ayşe Nur Uzaslan 1986 Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee ve John C. Polanyi 11.12.2018 11 15024065 I.Şevval Günerli 1987 Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn ve Charles J. Pedersen 11.12.2018 12 15024080 Tuğba Sargın 1988 Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber ve Hartmut Michel ” 11.12.2018 13 15024087 Ayşenur Demir 1989 Sidney Altman ve Thomas R. Cech 11.12.2018 14 15024100 Orçun Saraçoğlu 1990 Elias James Corey 11.12.2018 15 15024705 Selay Ender 1991 Richard R. Ernst 11.12.2018 16 16024001 Özge Kara 1992 Rudolph A. Marcus 11.12.2018 17 16024006 Burcu Durçak 1993 Kary B. Mullis ve Michael Smith 11.12.2018 18 16024014 Sena Taşkın 1994 George A. Olah “ 11.12.2018 19 16024021 Süeda Sertbakan 1995 Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina ve F. Sherwood Rowland 11.12.2018 Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto ve Richard E. 20 16024022 Aslı Aydoğan 1996 Smalley 11.12.2018 21 16024025 Gizem Topaçlı 1997 Paul D. Boyer ve John E. Walker, ve Jens C. Skou 18.11.2018 22 16024026 Mustafa Turgut 1998 Walter Kohn ve John A. Pople 18.11.2018 23 16024027 Duygu İbrahimko 1999 Ahmed H. Zewail 18.11.2018 24 16024031 Selin Küçük 2000 Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid ve Hideki Shirakawa 18.11.2018 25 16024032 Defne Munir 2001 William S. Knowles ve Ryoji Noyori ve K. Barry Sharpless 18.11.2018 26 16024035 Özge Vurgun 2002 John B. Fenn ve Koichi Tanaka ve Kurt Wüthrich 18.11.2018 27 16024036 İkra May Korkmaz 2003 Peter Agre ve Roderick MacKinnon 18.11.2018 28 16024044 Yüsra Bahar Çakır 2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko ve Irwin Rose 18.11.2018 29 16024053 M.Merve Başaran 2005 Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs ve Richard R. Schrock ” 18.11.2018 30 16024057 Melis Levi 2006 Roger D. Kornberg ” 18.11.2018 31 16024064 B.İlayda Şamiloğlu 2007 Gerhard Ertl ” 18.11.2018 32 16024072 Yaren Dikmen 2008 Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie ve Roger Y. Tsien 18.11.2018 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz ve Ada E. 33 16024086 Çağla İçli 2009 Yonath 18.11.2018 34 16024098 Merve Çetin 2010 Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi ve Akira Suzuki 18.11.2018 35 16024100 Gizem Gürcan 2011 Dan Shechtman 18.11.2018 36 16024109 Eylül Demiral 2012 Robert J. Lefkowitz ve Brian K. Kobilka 18.11.2018 37 16024605 Büşra Güleş 2013 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt ve Arieh Warshel 18.11.2018 38 17024013 Fatih Alkan 2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell ve William E. Moerner “ 18.11.2018 39 17024035 M.Enes Gemici 2015 Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich ve Aziz Sancar “ 18.11.2018 Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart ve Bernard L. 40 17024041 Barın Çakır 2016 Feringa ” 18.11.2018 41 17024064 İrem Bilgin 2017 Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank ve Richard Henderson 18.11.2018 42 17024708 N.efkan Uzunoğlu 2018 Frances H. Arnold , George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter 18.11.2018.
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