Behram Kurşunoğlu
Behram Kurşunoğlu (born May 14, 1922 in Çaykara , Turkey ; † October 25, 2003 in Coral Gables ) was a Turkish physicist.
Life
Kursunoglu studied in Ankara and Edinburgh and received his PhD from Cambridge University . In 1953 he was at Cornell University and visited Albert Einstein in Princeton during this time . 1956 to 1958 he was dean of the faculty for nuclear physics and nuclear technology at the Technical University of the Middle East and advisor to the Turkish General Staff. From 1958 he was a professor at the University of Miami . There he was one of the founders of the Center for Theoretical Physics and its first director in 1965 . Since 1964 he has organized the Coral Gables conferences in theoretical physics ( Orbis Scientiae ). Right from the start he had the support of J. Robert Oppenheimer . In 1992 he retired, but continued to organize his conferences through the Global Foundation, which he founded .
As a physicist, he dealt with theoretical elementary particle physics and unified field theories , that is, extensions of the general theory of relativity that also include the other fundamental forces . In particular, he pursued extensions with antisymmetric components of the metric tensor .
He also dealt with global energy issues.
Fonts
- Modern Quantum Theory, Freeman 1962
- Editor with Eugene Wigner Reminiscences about a great physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac , Cambridge University Press 1987
literature
- Arnold Perlmutter, Sydney Meshkov, Obituary in Physics Today, Volume 57, December 2004, pp. 79-81
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurşunoğlu, Behram |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kursunoglu, Behram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Çaykara |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 2003 |
| Place of death | Coral Gables |