He participated in the discovery of two different types of neutrinos in late 1950s. During his University of Miami career, he hosted several Nobel Prize laureates, including Paul Dirac, Lars Onsager and Robert Hofstadter. He wrote several books on diverse aspects of physics, the most notable of which is Modern Quantum Theory (1962).
Early life and education
Behram Kurşunoğlu was born in Çaykara district of Trabzon.[3] While he was a third year student in the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy of İstanbul Yüksek Öğretmen Okulu, he was sent to University of Edinburgh through a scholarship of the Turkish Ministry of Education, in 1945.
In 1965, he acted as one of the founders of the Center for Theoretical Studies of the University of Miami, of which he became the first director. During this period, he also worked in counseling positions for several research organizations and laboratories in Europe. With the invitation of Russian Academy of Sciences, he worked as a visiting professor in the USSR during 1968.
He continued his work at the Center for Theoretical Studies of the University of Miami until 1992, after which he became the director of the Global Foundation research organization.
Kursunoglu died on October 25, 2003, due to heart attack, shortly before that year's Coral Gables Conference, which was a festschrift for Paul Frampton combined with a memorial for Kursunoglu in a conference series he had been organizing since 1964. He had three children, İsmet, Sevil and Ayda, from his wife Sevda Arif.
"Science is Guidance" Award of the Atatürk Society of America (2001)[6]
Further reading
Perlmutter, A; Meshkov, S (2004). "Behram N. Kursunoğlu". Physics Today. 57 (12): 79–81. Bibcode:2004PhT....57l..79P. doi:10.1063/1.1878347.
References
^Nagourney, Eric (2003-11-03). "B. N. Kursunoglu, 81, Physicist Who Led Noted Research Center". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
^"Behram N. Kursunoglu | Print Edition - Physics Today". Archived from the original on 2013-07-14.
^"Behram Kurşunoğlu | Fizikist - Bilim Teknoloji". Archived from the original on 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
^"APS Fellow Archive". Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^"Geçmiş Yıllarda Bilim Ödülü Alanlar" [Former Recipients of the Science Award] (in Turkish). TÜBİTAK. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
^"Atatürk Awards". Retrieved 6 May 2021.
External links
The Work of Behram Kursunoglu, talk presented at the 2003 Coral Gables conference by Philip D. Mannheim.
La Belle Epoque of High Energy Physics and Cosmology Archived 2014-12-09 at the Wayback Machine, webpage for the 2003 Coral Gables conference.