Engin Arık

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Engin Arık (born October 14, 1948 in Istanbul , Turkey ; † November 30, 2007 near Keçiborlu , Turkey) was a Turkish physicist . She was a professor and headed the particle physics experimental group at Bosphorus University .

Professional background

Arık studied and graduated from Istanbul University in 1969 with a degree in mathematics and physics. In 1971 she received her M.Sc. from the University of Pittsburgh . and in 1976 her Ph. D. She continued her studies at Westfield College of the University of London continued.

In 1979 she returned to Turkey and became a faculty member of the Bosphorus University in Istanbul. In 1983 she left the university for two years, during which she worked for Control Data Corporation . In 1988 Arık became a professor at Bosphorus University.

Between 1997 and 2000 Arık took part in the meetings of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty for the Turkish government at the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations in Vienna .

She worked at CERN in Switzerland at ATLAS and the CAST experiment with.

Private

She was married to Metin Arık, who is a professor at the same faculty at Bosphorus University. The marriage had two children. Arık was killed in a plane crash ( Atlasjet flight 4203 ) on November 30, 2007.

Works (selection)

  • Proceedings of the sixth international Wigner Symposium, August 16-22, 1999 İstanbul, Turkey. Publishing house Boğaziçi University Press, İstanbul 2002, ISBN 975-518-188-1 .
  • Technical Papers - Laminar Flow of a Nonlinear Viscoplastic Fluid Through an Axisymmetric Sudden Expansion. In: Journal of Fluids Engineering. vol. 121, 2, 1999, p. 488. OCLC 4656616205 .
  • Study of boundary layer structure using laser doppler velocimetry, conditional sampling, and polymer additives. Dissertation . Harvard University, 1986, OCLC 20516579 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Physics expert, baby among plane dead. on: CNN . November 30, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b Engin Arık (Professor) ( Memento from August 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Faculty of Physics at the Bosporus University. Retrieved December 2, 2007.
  3. ^ Website of Engin Arık at the Bosporus University. Archived from the original on April 2, 2008 .;
  4. ↑ Kazada oil bilim adamları çok önemli nükleer projede çalışıyordu. In: Zaman . November 30, 2007, archived from the original on May 25, 2008 (Turkish).;
personal data
SURNAME Arık, Engin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2007
Place of death near Keçiborlu , Turkey