Behram KurÅŸunoÄŸlu

Behram Kurşunoğlu ( born May 14, 1922 in Caykara, Turkey, † 25 October 2003 in Coral Gables ) was a Turkish physicist.

Life

Kursunoglu studied in Ankara and Edinburgh and received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. In 1953 he was at Cornell University and attended at this time Albert Einstein in Princeton. 1956 to 1958 he was Dean of the Faculty of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Engineering at the Technical University of the Middle East and advisor to the Turkish General Staff. From 1958 he was professor at the University of Miami. There he was in 1965 one of the founders of the Center for Theoretical Physics and its first director. Since 1964, he organized the Coral Gables conferences in theoretical physics ( Orbis Scientiae ). He had the support of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the very beginning. In 1992 he retired, but organized its conferences further from the Global Foundation founded by him.

As a physicist, he worked on theoretical particle physics and unified field theories, ie extensions of general relativity, which also include the other fundamental forces. Specifically, he pursued extensions with anti-symmetrical proportions of the metric tensor.

He also dealt with global energy issues.

Writings

• Modern Quantum Theory, Freeman 1962
• Editor with Eugene Wigner Reminiscences about a great physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Cambridge University Press 1987