Ahmed Erdoğan (Sharifistani scientist)
Sipahi Ahmed Erdoğan, PHD, is a controversial Sharifistani geneticist, public intellectual and part of the Ministry of Science (which provides scientific advice to the Sultan of Sharifistan).
Sipahi Ahmed Muhammed Erdoğan Nişan De Onur, PHD, Effendi | |
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| Born | August the 3rd 1965 Madinat Al-Islam South-West, Madinat Al-Islam, Sharifistan |
| Nationality | Sharifistani Turk |
| Citizenship | Sharifistan |
| Education | Doctorate of Philosophy (PHD) in Genetics (1990-) |
| Alma mater | Madinat Al-Islam University (Bachelor of Science Course), Cambridge University (PHD) |
| Known for | popular science, public intellectual |
| Spouse(s) | Doctor Khadijah Aisha Erdoğan (m.1990), Fatimah Bint Muhammed (m.1992) and Aisha Bint Ali Erdoğan (m.1995) |
| Children | Muhammed Ahmed Erdoğan and Maryam Erdoğan |
| Awards | Nişan De Onur for "services to scientific understanding" |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | genetics |
| Institutions | Sharifistani Health Service (1990-1995),Madinat Al-Islam University (1995-2010), Ministry of Science (2010-) |
| Influences | Gregor Mendel, Charles Darwin, William Bateson |
| Influenced | Doctor Khadijah Aisha Erdoğan, Muhammed Ahmed Erdoğan, Sultan Suleiman Khan and the Sharifistani eugenics movement. |
Early life
Born in August the 3rd 1965, the son of Doctor Muhammed Erdoğan (a general physician) and Khanum Aisha Erdoğan (a nurse), Ahmed Erdoğan went was privately educated in primary school before going to to a Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān Grammar School at the age of 14 where he excelled.
University education
Ahmed Erdoğan attended Madinat Al-Islam University for three years achieving a first class Bachelor of Science Course in genetics before going to Cambridge University. He attained a PHD in genetics from Cambridge in 1990.
Career
In 1990, Ahmed Erdoğan got a job at the Sharifistani Health Service as a scientist. After that he enrolled at Madinat Al-Islam University in 1995 as a researcher. His published research on to the influence of genetics on various human traits (as well as his popular science works such as Runs In the Family: How Genetics Affects Who We Are and Born to Run: Genetics and Athleticism) lead him to become an advisor in the Ministry of Science in 2010.
As a science advisor he justified the concept of allowing people who have earnt titles to pass them on to their children and start noble families but wanted to ban cousin marriages amongst them to prevent a reduction in their average intelligence.
Controversy
Ahmed Erdoğan has courted controversy by saying "Intelligence is partly genetic so if someone does something smart and put him in charge of something, why not put his kid in charge of the same thing? We can always fire him if he keeps doing dumb things" justifying Sharifistan's hereditary nobility system. He also courted controversy amongst conservative Muslims for calling homosexuality "entirely natural".
Personal life
He has three wives Doctor Khadijah Aisha Erdoğan (m.1990), Fatimah Bint Muhammed (m.1992) and Aisha Bint Ali Erdoğan (m.1995) and two surviving children Muhammed Ahmed Erdoğan and Maryam Erdoğan. His eldest son (also named Ahmed Erdoğan) died during service as an Army Doctor.