Celâl Şengör

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Celâl Şengör in front of a T-rex

Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör , often quoted as AMC Şengör (born March 24, 1955 in Istanbul ), is a Turkish geologist. He is a professor at Istanbul Technical University . He is particularly concerned with tectonics and the reconstruction of the historical plate tectonics of Asia.

Life

Şengör grew up in a wealthy family in Istanbul. Due to his German childminder Ingeborg, he speaks fluent German. Celâl Şengör studied at the Robert Academy in Istanbul and at the State University of New York at Albany , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1978, his master's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982. He then went to the Istanbul Technical University, where he has been a professor since 1992. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at Oxford, at the Collège de France , the University of Paris-South and at Caltech .

In 1988 he received an honorary doctorate from the Université de Neuchâtel . In 1984 he received the President's Award and in 1999 the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London .

In 2000 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), he is also a member of the American Philosophical Society . He is co-editor of Tectonophysics, Journal of Structural Geology, Tectonics, Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae, Geologia Balcania. Şengör has a private library with over 30,000 volumes on the subject of geology and geological history.

In 2010 he received the Gustav Steinmann Medal , whereby the laudation emphasized that he had revitalized the tectonics of Asia by Émile Argand like no other with the ideas of plate tectonics .

In 2012 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 2016 he was elected member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . For 2018, Şengör was awarded the Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union .

He writes weekly columns in the field of science for the social democratic-secular daily Cumhuriyet . Şengör is one of the few personalities in Turkey who openly profess to be atheists . He advocates teaching the theory of evolution in schools and is a critic of the AKP government. When asked if he wanted to teach women with headscarves as a professor, he said the following:

«If I have a girl in front of me with all the signs of Islam, how can I talk to her about the history of our planet? I know that she doesn't want to believe in it. "

Fonts

  • Editor Tectonic evolution of the Tethyan Region , Kluwer 1989
  • with Akiho Miyashiro, Keiiti Aki Orogeny , Wiley 1982
  • Is the present the key to the past or is the past the key to the present?: James Hutton and Adam Smith versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in interpreting history , Geological Society of America 2001
  • The large-wavelength deformations of the lithosphere. Materials for a history of the evolution of thought from the earliest times to plate tectonics , Geological Society of America, 2003

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ EGU announces 2018 awards and medals. In: egu.eu. October 9, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://www.esiweb.org/index.php?film_ID=10&id=311&lang=de&slide_ID=4
personal data
SURNAME Şengör, Celâl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sengör, AMC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul