Oktay Sinanoglu is a specialist on theoretical chemistry who became well known early in his career for his Many-Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules. More recently, he received attention for a research system, dubbed "Sinanoglu Made Simple," that he derived from his own mathematical theories. The method, considered revolutionary, enables chemists to predict the ways in which chemicals combine in the laboratory and to solve other complex problems in chemistry using simple pictures and periodic tables. When it was announced in 1988, Professor Sinanoglu said it was easy enough for even a 12-year-old to understand, adding, "The pictorial rules turn chemistry into a fun game..." Professor Sinanoglu came to the United States from Turkey for his post-secondary education, earning a B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1960, and has since published many papers explaining his theories on chemistry. When he was named a professor in 1963 at the age of 28, he became the youngest person in the past century at Yale to attain status as a full professor.