Daron Acemoglu, economist of the Armenian origin, may be nominated for Nobel Prize, Milliyet newspaper reported referring to Bloomberg.

The newspaper notes that Acemoglu will be the second Turkish citizen to get the Nobel Prize after writer Orhan Pamuk.

In November Daron Acemoglu, Professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Istanbul citizen of the Armenian origin, was included in the second Top 100 Global Thinkers list issued by the Foreign Policy magazine.

The Turkish press draws attention to the fact that two Turkish citizens, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Daron Acemoglu, are included in the list. According to the local media outlets, Davutoglu invited Acemoglu to Turkey. The professor said that he would be happy to strike up personal acquaintance with the Turkish FM.

Daron Acemoglu was born in 1967 in Istanbul. In 1986 he graduated from the Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. He studied at the University of York in UK and later got his Ph.D. degree in London School of Economics.  In 2000 he was promoted to full professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to the IDEAS/RePec economics and finance research center he is one of the 20 most quoted economists in the world.