Feza Gürsey
7 April 1921 – 13 April 1992
Feza Gürsey was a Turkish mathematician and physicist known for his work on symmetry principles in particle physics. After studies in Istanbul and a doctorate at Imperial College London, he taught in Turkey and then at Yale University, where he spent most of his career. His contributions include work on chiral symmetry, the Gürsey-Radicati mass formula, and the use of exceptional Lie groups in unified field theories.
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Life events
Born to Reşit Süreyya Gürsey, a physician, and Remziye Hisar, a chemist.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a degree in mathematics and physics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a PhD in theoretical physics in the United Kingdom.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Helped build the physics department at METU while dividing his time between Turkey and the United States.
Taught at Yale for the remainder of his career.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDerived with Luigi Radicati a mass formula for hadrons based on SU(6) symmetry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared the medal with Yuval Ne'eman for contributions to the theory of symmetry in physics.
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