Ahmet Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-born
American
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theoretical physicist and
nature photographer.
Regents' Professor Emeritus at
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...
following
Joseph Ford (physicist)
Joseph Ford (18 December 1927 – 26 April 1995) was Regents' Professor of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in thermodynamics and chaos theory.
Early life and education
Born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, he was award ...
. He has contributed in the field of atomic and molecular physics,
nonlinear dynamics and chaos significantly. His research on interplay between
quantum dynamics
and
classical mechanics, in the context of
chaos is considered to be novel in molecular and theoretical physics and chemistry.
Academic career
Turgay Uzer completed his bachelor's degree at Turkey's prestigious
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The ...
. According to
Harvard University Library
his doctoral thesis was entitled "Photon and electron interactions with diatomic molecules." He defended his dissertation and graduated from Harvard University in 1979.
Before joining
Georgia Tech in 1985 as an associate professor, he worked as a research fellow at
University of Oxford 1979/81,
Caltech 1982/1983, and as a research associate at
University of Colorado 1983/85. Currently, he is a faculty member with th
Center for Nonlinear Scienceand
full professor of physics at
Georgia Tech.
His research areas are quite broad, but he has focused on the dynamics of intermolecular energy transfer, reaction dynamics, quantal manifestations of classical mechanics, quantization of nonlinear systems, computational physics, molecular physics, applied mathematics.
Awards
Uzer was
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation Fellow in 1993–1994 at
Max Planck Institute, Munich.
Uzer is of Turkish origin and was also awarded the prestigious Science award for his contributions to physics from the
Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK)br>
in 1998.
Selected publications
Books
* The Physics and Chemistry of Wave Packets, with John Yeazel
at books.google* Lecture Notes on Atomic and Molecular Physics with Şakir Erko�
at books.google
Some of the seminal papers
Uzer has more than 80 referenced Journal articles, in a number of highly respected scientific journals.
appeared in PREChaotic billiards with neutral boundaries
appeared in ScienceCelestial Mechanics on a Microscopic Scale
appeared in JCPQuantization with operators appropriate to shapes of trajectories and classical perturbation theory
References
External links
Georgia Tech Homepage
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Turkish physicists
21st-century American physicists
Turkish chemists
Turkish mathematicians
Turkish academics
Turkish emigrants to the United States
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Georgia Tech faculty
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Theoretical physicists
Computational chemists
American academics of Turkish descent
1952 births
Fellows of the American Physical Society