The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Türkiye
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkish Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Türkiye. This makes Türkiye the birth place of the 55th most number of Physicists behind Greece, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Physicists of all time. This list of famous Turkish Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ayşe Erzan (b. 1949)
With an HPI of 54.74, Ayşe Erzan is the most famous Turkish Physicist. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Ayşe Erzan (born 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist. She has received a number of awards including a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2003 and a Rammal Award in 2009.
2. Canan Dağdeviren (b. 1985)
With an HPI of 38.47, Canan Dağdeviren is the 2nd most famous Turkish Physicist. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Canan Dağdeviren (; born May 4, 1985) is a Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is "coded" in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can "decode" these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Turkish physicists born between 1949 and 1985. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Turkish physicists include Ayşe Erzan, and Canan Dağdeviren. As of April 2024, 1 new Turkish physicists have been added to Pantheon including Canan Dağdeviren.
