Remziye Hisar

Remziye Hisar (* 1902 in Üsküp , today Skopje ; † June 13, 1992 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish chemist. She was the first Turkish academic to graduate from the Sorbonne and one of the first natural scientists in Turkey. Her specialty was metaphosphates .

Life

Remziye Hisar was born as the daughter of the civil servant Salih Hulusi and his wife Ayşe Refia in what is now Skopje, which at that time belonged to the Ottoman Empire as Üsküp . A year after the beginning of the Second Ottoman constitutional period , the family returned to Istanbul in 1909.

education

The grandmother took in the family. In the following years the family moved several times within Istanbul due to the father's job. Remziye attended elementary school and then completed training for teachers at Dârülmuallimât . Then she attended a boarding school in the Istanbul district of Fatih for five years , where she graduated from university. She then studied at Darülfünun (now Istanbul Üniversitesi ), where her particular interest was chemistry. On July 15, 1919, she successfully completed her studies.

Shortly after graduating, she went to Baku to teach at an institute for teacher training. At a dinner hosted by a wealthy Azerbaijani, Remziye met the Turkish doctor Reşit Süreyya Gürsey . The two became engaged on March 18, 1920 and married on April 20. Only a short time later, however, the couple left the country as Azerbaijan was taken by Russian troops and returned home.

On April 7, 1921, their son Feza was born, who would later become a well-known mathematician and physicist. In the same year Remziye received a call from a former teacher who now held a high-ranking position in the Ministry of Education. He asked the chemist to go to Adana to teach mathematics. Remziye took the ship to Mersin and from there to Adana. She left her one and a half year old son with her mother and older sister in Istanbul.

After a year Remziye followed her husband to Paris to start a university course there. In 1924 their daughter Deha (Gürsey Owens) was born in Paris. In Paris, Remziye studied chemistry at the Sorbonne, where she was a student of Marie Curie . During this time she received a scholarship from the Turkish government and so her son was able to come to Paris with her sister. Remziye graduated with a degree in biochemistry . She was unable to fulfill her wish for a doctorate because her scholarship was running out.

Career

Back in Istanbul she worked in the administration of the Erenköy girls' school. But Remziye was not enthusiastic, because she wanted to teach chemistry or continue to learn and research. However, she was refused an application for a scholarship for a doctoral degree. When she applied for a vacancy as a chemistry teacher at the mining engineering school in Zonguldak , the Ministry of Education offered her a scholarship for a doctorate in Paris. Her son Feza should be allowed to attend the Galatasaray High School boarding school for free .

In 1930 Remziye and Reşit Süreyya Gürsey divorced. With Deha and her younger sister Mihri, Remziye traveled to Paris, where the sister was supposed to take care of the daughter. She conducted research on metaphosphates under Paul Pascal and received her doctorate three years later. In 1933 she returned to Turkey. She became a research assistant for chemistry and physical chemistry at the Istanbul Üniversitesi. In 1936 she moved to Ankara , where she worked as a specialist in biochemistry in the pharmacodynamics department of the State Health Service.

In 1947 Remziye, who took the surname Hisar according to the Family Name Act, went to İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi and became a research assistant in chemistry at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry. In 1959 she was appointed full professor. In 1973 she retired. Many of her articles appeared in the Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France .

Late years

After her retirement, Remziye Hisar lived in her house in Anadolu Hisarı . She died only shortly after her son died in June 1992.

Honors

In 1991 she was honored by the Turkish Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (TÜBITAK).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Remziye Hisar , Biyografya, accessed on May 11, 2018 (English / Turkish)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Remziye Hisar ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Kimdir ?, accessed on May 11, 2018 (Turkish)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Remziye Hisar ( Memento from June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), TÜBITAK, (Turkish)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Bir "Çalıkuşu" Öyküsü… İlk Kadın Kimyacımız-Remziye Hisar , Bilim Tarihi, accessed on May 11, 2018
5. ↑ Feza Gürsey ( Memento from August 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Online Fizik (Turkish)
6. ↑ Remziye Hisar - Kimyasal Gelişmeler , kimyasalgelismeler.com, accessed on May 11, 2018 (Turkish)