List of Turkish inventors and discoverers
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
- 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.
- Asim Orhan Barut : physicist; Theory of hadrons as bound states of leptons via short-range magnetic resonances, contributions to the theory of the S matrix , electron-optical and statistical behavior of the lattice multipliers
- Hulusi Behçet : Medic; Adamantiades-Behçet's disease (together with Benediktos Adamantiades )
- Bekir Bey Efendi : pastry chef; Inventor of the Lokum dessert
- Betül Kacar : astrobiologist; You succeed in reviving an old protein.
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.
- Hilmi Volkan Demir : Scientist; Generation of white light through nano-crystals (alternative light source)
- Taqi ad-Din : universal scholar; Inventor of a steam turbine , a complex piston pump , various mechanical and astronomical clocks and instruments
- al-Jazari : engineer; Invention of doors and door locks
E.
- Ali Erdemir : materials scientist and technician; Carbon film coating
- Sabri Ergun : chemist; Ergun equation
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
- Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi : aviation pioneer; first glider flight over the Bosporus
- Menahem Hodara : dermatologist; Hodara disease / Hodarsche disease (Trichorrhexis nodosa)
- Hilmi Volkan Demir : experimental physicist; Work on the generation of white light, development and demonstration of innovative hybrid nanophotonic components
- Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha : mathematician; Generalization of vector algebra in vector space, work that was groundbreaking for the later linear algebra.
I.
- İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi : universal scholar; first essential description of the solar system known to us today in his book Marifetname under the name 'hey'et-i cedide' around 1757, furthermore various anatomical findings and different world maps are written in this book
- Ataç İmamoğlu : quantum physicist; Pioneer in quantum optics , first single photon source with quantum dots (use of photon correlation spectroscopy to study quantum dots and the Purcell effect on quantum dots)
- Erdal Inönü : physicist; İnönü-Wigner contractions (group contractions) (together with Eugene Wigner )
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.
- Lâgari Hasan Çelebi : aviation pioneer; first manned rocket flight (1633)
- 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
- Piri Reis : sailor; Map of the Piri Reis (Ottoman sea map of the Central Atlantic), contributions to the world map
- Adnan Pirisan : businessman; Inventor of the orthopedic prayer rug
- Atakan Peker : physicist and researcher; Inventor of Liquidmetal
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
S.
- Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu : surgeon and physiologist; first surgical atlas
- Muzaffer Şerif (Muzafer Sherif): social psychologist; Investigation of peer pressure and conformity using the autokinetic effect ("Experiment on informational social influence and the Robber's Cave experiment")
- Seydi Ali Reis : Navigator, exploring the lands from India to Constantinople
- Süleyman Suat Sezgin : musician and inventor, musical instrument Ahenk (1928)
- Selman Yusuf Akbulut : mathematician; Contributions to topology, proof with Henry C. King that every compact PL-manifold is a real algebraic set and finding new topolic invariants of real algebraic sets.
- Niyazi Serdar Sarıçiftçi : physicist; Pioneering contributions to organic solar cells.
T
- Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk : mathematician; Work on algebra in his book Kitâb al-ǧabr wa 'al-Muqâbala from the 9th century
U
- Ulugh Beg : polymath; Construction of an observatory with an underground sextant in 1428, calculation of the sidereal year in the 15th century (together with al-Kaschi and Qadi Zada ), astronomical treatise Zīdsch-i Sultānī
Y
- Gazi Yaşargil : medical doctor and neurosurgeon; Founder of modern microneurosurgery, inventor of the Yaşargil aneurysm clamp
- Cem Yıldırım : mathematician; Theorem on the number of prime twins (together with Dan Goldston and János Pintz )