List of Turkish inventors and discoverers

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The list of Turkish inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Turkey , in alphabetical order of the family name (for persons without a family name, i.e. before the introduction of the Family Names Act of 1934 , the proper name or surname applies). This list includes all persons who have or had citizenship of the Republic of Turkey, regardless of their place of work, or who lived or worked in the geographic area of ​​today's Turkey.

A.

  • Ahı Ahmed Çelebi : Medic; described u. a. Findings on kidney stone in one of his 15th century books
  • Asim Orhan Barut : Theoretical Physicist; New approaches to access quantum electrodynamics without a second quantization of the electromagnetic field.
  • Ali Erdemir : materials scientist; ran friction tests with a hard, low-friction coating.
  • Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk : mathematician; Contributions to algebra, especially geometrical evidence that if the discriminant is negative, there is no solution to the quadratic equation.
  • Selman Akbulut : mathematician; Akbulut cork
  • Turhan Alçelik : ophthalmologist; Headlights with continuous long-distance lighting without glare
  • Aqsara'i : Turkish / Persian doctor; Work, commentary and new knowledge on medicine in his book called Hall al-Mujiz
Cahit Arf on the back of the Turkish 10 lira note
  • Alp Arslan : Sultan; Founder of the Anatolian variant of the Turkish sport Cirit
  • Aziz Sancer : biophysicist; Mechanistic studies of DNA repair, elucidation of molecular mechanisms of DNA repair in the body, in particular nucleotide excision repair (NER) and photolyases.
  • Alā 'ad-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muhammad al-Qūschdschī : astronomer and mathematician; Reform of the Ptolemaic model of the movement of the planet Mercury.
  • Ataç İmamoğlu : physicist; A pioneer in quantum optics, he was the first to propose Bose-Einstein condensates of polaritons, which were used, among other things, in the polariton laser.

B.

C.

  • Cahit Arf : mathematician; Arf invariant of a square shape (knot theory, topology), the Hasse-Arf theorem (branching) and the Arf rings (ring theory), nano-colors
  • Cem Yalçın Yıldırım : mathematician; Proof of a theorem about the number of prime twins with Dan Goldston and János Pintz.

D.

Astronomers work at the Murad III observatory.
(Taqi ad-Din is believed to be one of the two men on the right behind the counter looking at the astrolabe.)
  • al-Jazari : engineer; Invention of doors and door locks

E.

F.

  • al-Fārābī : polymath and philosopher; Instrument Schahrud (string instrument)
  • Feza Gürsey : Theoretical Physicist; Application of group theory in elementary particle physics, extension of the SU (3) symmetry of the elementary particles to an SU (6) symmetry.
  • Feryal Özel : astrophysicist; First precise measurements of the radii of neutron stars.

G

  • Erol Gelenbe : computer scientist, electrical engineer and mathematician; neural networks (RNN), G networks
  • Elif Genceli Güler : chemist, researcher; Discovery of the mineral Meridianiite during research in Antarctica
  • Hakan Gürsu : engineer; developed the boat Volitan , which is operated solely by wind and solar energy (together with Sözüm Doğan )
  • Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil : medical doctor and neurosurgeon; Development of micro-neurosurgery, treatment of epilepsy and brain tumors with self-designed instruments.

H

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K

  • Katib Çelebi : Polihistor; In his work Cihânnümâ (mirror of the world) various maps are drawn, such as B. A map of the Indian Ocean and the Sea of ​​China
  • Behram Kurşunoğlu : physicist; u. a. he unified field theories

L.

contemporary depiction of Lagari Hasan Çelebi's rocket flight
  • Ahmet Lokurlu : researcher, industrial engineer and company founder ; Extraction of cold from solar energy

M.

  • Musa Muslihuddin : Medic; Inventor of the paste Mesir Macunu
  • Muzaffer Şerif Başoğlu : social psychologist; Research on social influence and research on conflict within and between groups.
  • Mohammed ibn Jābir al-Battānī : astronomer; important contributions to trigonometry, proof of the relationship between sine and cosine the Tangen, introduction of the apse in astronomy
  • Mehmed II : sultan, poet and mathematician; Further development of numerous types of cannons, invention of the anti-aircraft cannon

O

  • Osman Hamdi Bey archaeologist; Among other things, discovery of the Alexander sarcophagus
  • Hasan Basri Özdamar : engineer; HBO engine (internal combustion engine with rotatable connecting rod)
  • Oktay Sinanoğlu : quantum physicist, chemist, biologist; Many Electron Theory of Atoms and Molecules (1961), Solvophobic Theory (1964), Network Theory (1974), Microthermodynamics (1981), Valency Interaction Formula Theory (1983)

P

Pîrî Reis statue in the Museum of the Seas in Mersin (Turkey)

Q

  • Qadi Zada : mathematician and astronomer; Treatises on the sinus, et al. a. He calculated the sine of 1 ° to 16 decimal places as early as the 14th century
  • ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muhammad al-Qushdschī (Ali Kuşçu): Turkish / Persian astronomer, mathematician and theologian; various works in astronomy, mathematics, mechanics and linguistics
Ali al-Qushdschī, right in front of Sultan Mehmed II.

S.

T

  • Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk : mathematician; Work on algebra in his book Kitâb al-ǧabr wa 'al-Muqâbala from the 9th century

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