List of Turkish philosophers and scientists
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This is a list of notable Turkish
philosophers and scholars .
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philosophers and scholars .
- Asım Orhan BarutAsim Orhan BarutAsım Orhan Barut was a Turkish-American theoretical physicist.-Biography:Barut was a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests centered on of group theoretic methods in physics...
, University of Colorado-BoulderUniversity of Colorado at BoulderThe University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
physicist - Aydın SayılıAydin SayiliAydın Sayılı was a historian of science. His career was aided by chance meeting with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whom he impressed enough to receive a state-supported scholarship to attend graduate school at Harvard, where he studied under George Sarton....
- Historian of science - Aykut BarkaAykut BarkaAykut Barka was a Turkish earth scientist specialized in earthquake research. He is best known for his contributions to understanding the behaviour of the North Anatolian Fault Zone , one of the most dangerous active faults in the world.-Biography:He was born in Fatih district of Istanbul in 1951...
– Earth scientist - Cahit ArfCahit ArfCahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.-Biography:Cahit Arf was born on 11 October 1910 in Selanik , which was then...
– Mathematician - Celâl ŞengörCelâl SengörAli Mehmet Celâl Şengör is a Turkish geologist. He is currently on the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering. He got his PhD at the State University of New York, Albany in 1982. He also writes weekly popular science columns in center-left daily Cumhuriyet...
– Geologist - Erol GelenbeErol GelenbeSami Erol Gelenbe is a Turkish computer scientist, engineer and applied mathematician who currently holds the Dennis Gabor Professorship at Imperial College...
- Computer scientist - Feza GürseyFeza GürseyFeza Gürsey was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. His best known contribution to theoretical physics is his work on the Nonlinear Chiral Lagrangian.-Biography:...
– Physicist - Gazi YaşargilGazi YasargilMahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon . He is the founder of microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors with instruments of his own design...
– Father of modern Microneurosurgery - Ali AkansuAli AkansuAli N. Akansu is a Turkish American scientist best known for his contributions to the theory and applications of sub-band and wavelet transforms.-Biography:Akansu received his B.S. degree from the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 1980, his M.S...
– Electrical Engineer - Hulusi BehçetHulusi BehçetHulusi Behçet was a Turkish dermatologist and scientist. He described a disease of inflamed blood vessels in 1937, which is named after him as the Behçet's disease.- Professional works :...
– Scientist - Ismail AkbayIsmail AkbayIsmail Akbay was the first Turk who worked for NASA. He was born in Mudanya near Bursa, Turkey on October 17, 1930. Early on, Akbay was recognized as a gifted child with exceptional mental aptitude. He graduated from Bursa Erkek Lisesi and Haydarpaşa Lisesi before choosing to move to the United...
– Engineer - Janet Akyüz MatteiJanet Akyüz MatteiJanet Akyüz Mattei was a Turkish American astronomer, educated in both Turkey and the United States and with a U.S. career, who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers from 1973 to 2004....
– Astronomer - Erdal İnönüErdal InönüErdal İnönü was a Turkish physicist and politician. He was the son of Turkey's second president İsmet İnönü...
– Physicist, politician - Masatoshi Gündüz IkedaMasatoshi Gündüz IkedaMasatoşi Gündüz İkeda , was a Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory....
- MathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change.... - Mehmet TonerMehmet TonerMehmet Toner, PhD is a Turkish biomedical engineer. A professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology , Toner first gained prominence for his theory of intra-cellular ice formation while...
, cryobiologist, biomedical engineer - Muhammed Hamdi YazırMuhammed Hamdi YazirMuhammed Hamdi Yazır also known as Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır and Elmalılı was a Turkish theologian, logician, Qur'an translator, Qur'anic exegesis scholar, Islamc legal academic, philosopher and encyclopedist....
- theologianTheologyTheology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo... - Oktay SinanoğluOktay SinanogluOktay Sinanoğlu is a Turkish scientist specializing in theoretical chemistry and molecular biology. In May 1963 at the age of 29 , he was full professor at Yale University...
(born 1935), theoretical chemistTheoretical chemistryTheoretical chemistry seeks to provide theories that explain chemical observations. Often, it uses mathematical and computational methods that, at times, require advanced knowledge. Quantum chemistry, the application of quantum mechanics to the understanding of valency, is a major component of...
and molecular biologMolecular biologyMolecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry... - Orkut BüyükköktenOrkut BüyükköktenOrkut Büyükkökten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut....
, software engineer - Piri ReisPiri ReisPiri Reis was an Turkish Ottoman admiral, geographer and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470 and died in 1554 or 1555....
- Ottoman cartographer and admiral - Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf - Ottoman polymathPolymathA polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
: a scientistIslamic scienceScience in the medieval Islamic world, also known as Islamic science or Arabic science, is the science developed and practised in the Islamic world during the Islamic Golden Age . During this time, Indian, Iranian and especially Greek knowledge was translated into Arabic...
, astronomerIslamic astronomyIslamic astronomy or Arabic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age , and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and...
, astrologer, engineer, inventor, clockmakerClockmakerA clockmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs clocks. Since almost all clocks are now factory-made, most modern clockmakers only repair clocks. Modern clockmakers may be employed by jewellers, antique shops, and places devoted strictly to repairing clocks and watches...
, watchmakerWatchmakerA watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since virtually all watches are now factory made, most modern watchmakers solely repair watches. However, originally they were master craftsmen who built watches, including all their parts, by hand...
, physicistIslamic physicsPhysics in medieval Islam is the development of physics in the medieval Islamic world in the history of physics. In the course of the expansion of the Islamic world, Muslim scholars encountered the science, mathematics, and medicine of antiquity through the works of Aristotle, Archimedes, Galen,...
, mathematicianIslamic mathematicsIn the history of mathematics, mathematics in medieval Islam, often termed Islamic mathematics or Arabic mathematics, covers the body of mathematics preserved and developed under the Islamic civilization between circa 622 and 1600...
, botanist, zoologistMuslim Agricultural RevolutionThe Arab Agricultural Revolution is a term coined by the historian Andrew Watson in his influential 1974 paper postulating a fundamental transformation in agriculture from the 8th century to the 13th century in the Muslim...
, pharmacist, physicianIslamic medicineIn the history of medicine, Islamic medicine, Arabic medicine or Arabian medicine refers to medicine developed in the Islamic Golden Age, and written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization....
, QadiQadiQadi is a judge ruling in accordance with Islamic religious law appointed by the ruler of a Muslim country. Because Islam makes no distinction between religious and secular domains, qadis traditionally have jurisdiction over all legal matters involving Muslims...
, MosqueMosqueA mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...
timekeeper, Islamic philosopherIslamic philosophyIslamic philosophy is a branch of Islamic studies. It is the continuous search for Hekma in the light of Islamic view of life, universe, ethics, society, and so on...
, theologianKalamʿIlm al-Kalām is the Islamic philosophical discipline of seeking theological principles through dialectic. Kalām in Islamic practice relates to the discipline of seeking theological knowledge through debate and argument. A scholar of kalām is referred to as a mutakallim...
and MadrasahMadrasahMadrasah is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious...
teacher - Tantek ÇelikTantek ÇelikTantek Çelik is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications....
, computer scientist - Turgay ÜzerTurgay UzerAhmet Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-American theoretical physicist.Currently Regents' Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has contributed in field of atomic and molecular physics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos significantly...
, Georgia Institute of TechnologyGeorgia Institute of TechnologyThe Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
Physicist - Vamik VolkanVamik VolkanVamık D. Volkan, M.D. is a Turkish-Cypriot emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine...
(born 1932), psychiatrist and author - Cemal YildirimCemal YildirimCemal Yıldırım was a Turkish philosopher, author, educator, and researcher. He was one of the pioneers of the Philosophy of Science in the 20’th century and a prolific author of 15 books and numerous academic papers.He has written extensively on the Philosophy of Science and History of Science...
- Philosophy of Science - Farabi,(Al-Farabi, Pharabius), philosopher
- Qazi Zadeh, mathematician
- Mustafa NaimaMustafa NaimaMuṣtafa Na'īmā was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote the chronicle known as the Ta'rīkh-i Na'īmā...
,historian - AşıkpaşazadeAşıkpaşazadeAşıkpaşazade was an Ottoman historian. His main works are known under two names: Menâkıb-ı Âli-i Osman and Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i ʿOsmān...
,historian - Yunus EmreYunus EmreYunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present...
,philosopher - İbrahim Hakkı ErzurumiIbrahim Hakki Erzurumiİbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi was a Turkish Sufi philosopher and encyclopedist. In 1756 he published his work Marifetname which was a compilation and commentary on astronomy, mathematics, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and Islamic mysticism...
,philosopher - Neyzen TevfikNeyzen TevfikNeyzen Tevfik was a Turkish poet, satirist, and neyzen . He was born in Bodrum on March 24, 1879, and died in Istanbul on January 28, 1953. His name is occasionally misspelled as Neyzen Teyfik.-Biography:Tevfik learned Persian as a young man, and became a Mevlevi in İzmir...
,philosopher - Mahmud al-Kashgari,lexicographer
- Kadrî of PergamonKadrî of PergamonKadrî of Pergamon , 16th century Turkish linguist, author of the first grammar book on Ottoman language.Although little is known about the life of Kadrî, it is assumed that he was born in Bergama and later moved to Constantinople...
, linguist - Molla Şemseddin FenariMolla Semseddin FenariMolla Shemseddin Fenari was an Ottoman logician, Islamic theologian, and Islamic legal academic....
,logician, Islamic theologian - Ahmed Dede MüneccimbaşiAhmed Dede MüneccimbaşiAhmed Dede Müneccimbaşi was an Ottoman astronomer and astrologer. He was also a historian, having written a history of the world concentrating on the history of Islamic dynasties and especially the Ottoman Empire. He is often referred to only under the sole name of "Müneccimbaşı", which was...
,astronomer,astrologer and historian - SanizadeSanizadeSanizade was an important physician and historian of the Ottoman Turks that lived in the first half of the 19th century.In the area of medicine, the Ottoman Turks only began to develop a modern medical vocabulary in Turkish in about 1826 with the work of Sanizade, who had set about translating...
,physician and historian - Katip ÇelebiKatip ÇelebiKâtip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdullah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, was an Ottoman scholar. A historian and geographer, he is regarded as one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire...
,historian and geographer - İbrahim PeçeviIbrahim Peçeviİbrahim Peçevi or Peçuyli İbrahim Efendi was a Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Pécs, Ottoman Empire , hence his name, Peçevi . His mother was of Sokollu Bosnian family. The name of his father is unknown...
,historian - Ahmed Resmî EfendiAhmed Resmî EfendiAhmed Resmî Efendi , also called Ahmed bin İbrahim Giridî , was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat and author of the late 18th century...
,historian and diplomat - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha,sociologist,legist and historian
- Mustafa AliMustafa AliGelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi was an Ottoman historian and bureaucrat of Croatian ancestry. He wrote the earliest known biography of Ahmed Bican. He also wrote poetry and essays on religious and other subjects. Prof...
,historian - Matrakçı NasuhMatrakçi NasuhNasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Bosnavî , commonly known as Matrakçı Nasuh for his competence in the game called Matrak was a 16th century Ottoman mathematician, teacher, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, and miniaturist of...
,mathematician, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, and miniaturist - Hoca Sadeddin EfendiHoca Sadeddin EfendiHoca Sadeddin Efendi was an Ottoman scholar, official, and historian, a teacher of Ottoman sultan Murad III . His name is transcribed differently: Sa'd ad-Din, Sa'd al-Din, Sa’adeddin, Sadeddin, etc...
,historian - Mustafa SelanikiMustafa SelanikiMustafa Selaniki was a Turkish scholar and chronicler, whose Tarih-i Selâniki described the Ottoman Empire of 1563–1599.- See also :*Salonica...
,historian - Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed AgaSilahdar Findiklili Mehmed AgaSilahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga was a Turkish historian.Born in Constantinople , he entered in the service of the Imperial Ottoman Gardens and then as page in the privvy chamber...
,historian - Ulugh BegUlugh BegUlugh Bek was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His commonly-known name is not truly a personal name, but rather a moniker, which can be loosely translated as "Great Ruler" or "Patriarch Ruler" and was the Turkic equivalent of Timur's Perso-Arabic title Amīr-e...
,astronomer and mathematician - Ali Qushji,astronomer, mathematician, physicist and scientist
- Ayten AydınAyten AydınAyten Aydın, , civil engineer, anthropologist-Biography:In 1951 Aydin graduated as a civil engineer and then worked for about a decade in Turkey as a hydraulic engineer, specializing in river basin development planning. During this period she did several post-graduate studies and on the job...
,civil engineer and anthropologist - Leyla NeyziLeyla NeyziLeyla Neyzi is a Turkish academician who is currently working in Sabancı University, Istanbul.- Biography :...
,anthropologist,sociologist and historian - Nur YalmanNur YalmanNur Yalman is a leading Turkish social anthropologist and professor at Harvard University.Yalman received his high school diploma from Robert College, Istanbul, one of Turkey’s premier private high schools. For his BA and PhD, he studied Social Anthropology at Cambridge University under the...
,anthropologist - Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī,astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician
- Osman Nuri EralpOsman Nuri EralpOsman Nuri Eralp was a Turkish veterinarian, veterinary scientist and microbiologist.Eralp was born in İstanbul, then in the Ottoman Empire, and now in Turkey. He completed his university education at "Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Mülkiye" which was the medical school of Darülfünun...
,veterinary scientist and microbiologist - Aziz SancarAziz SancarProf. Aziz Sançar is a Turkish scientist specialising in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and the circadian clock. His longest-running study has involved photolyase and the mechanisms of photo-reactivation...
,biochemist - Turhan BaytopTurhan BaytopTurhan Baytop was a Turkish botanist from Istanbul.-Notable publications:*Türkiye'de Bitkiler ile Tedavi, 1984, ISBN 9754200211*The Bulbous Plants of Turkey, 1984...
,botanist - Semih TezcanSemih TezcanSalih Semih Tezcan is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil engineering in 1954. In 1962, he went to Canada, and joined University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor....
,civil engineer - Alev AlatlıAlev AlatliAlev Alatlı is a Turkish economist, philosopher, columnist and bestselling novelist.-Early years:She was born 1944 in the town of Menemen in western Turkey to an officer's family...
,economist and philosopher - Ahmet AlkanAhmet AlkanAhmet Ugur Alkan is a Turkish economist and the former dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.-External links:*...
,economist