List of Turkish philosophers and scientists explained

Notable Turkish philosophers, scientists and scholars include:

A

• Mete Atatüre, physician
• Ahmet Yesevi, philosopher
• Ahmet Resmi, historian
• Ahi Çelebi, physician
• Silahdar Fındıklılı Mehmed Ağa, historian
• Ali Akansu, electrical engineer
• İsmail Akbay, engineer
• Selman Akbulut, mathematician
• Abdülkadir Topkaç, astronomer
• Alev Alatlı, economist
• Mustafa Âlî, historian
• Ahmet Alkan, economist
• Cahit Arf, mathematician
• Erdal Arikan, electrical engineer
• Oruç Aruoba, poet, philosopher
• Huseyin Arslan, engineer
• Aşıkpaşazade, historian
• 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, mathematician
• Alper Gezeravcı, pilot and astronaut
• Ahi Evran, mystic

B

• Aykut Barka, earth scientist
• Asım Orhan Barut, physicist^[1]
• Turhan Baytop, botanist
• Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist, physician and scientist
• Besim Ömer Akalın, physician
• Orkut Büyükkökten, software engineer

C

• Katip Çelebi, historian, philosopher and geographer
• Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
• Erhan Çınlar, probabilist
• Cahit Arf, mathematician

D

• Hilmi Volkan Demir, scientist
• Asli Demirguc-Kunt, economist
• Arda Denkel, philosopher
• Naşide Gözde Durmuş, geneticist

E

• Ahmed Resmî Efendi, historian and diplomat
• Gelenbevi İsmail Efendi, mathematician
• Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, historian
• Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and philosopher
• Osman Nuri Eralp, veterinary scientist and microbiologist
• Ali Erdemir, scientist
• Elza Erkip, electrical and computer engineer
• Ayşe Erzan, theoretical physicist
• İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, philosopher and mystic

F

• Molla Şemseddin Fenari, logician, Islamic theologian
• Nusret Fişek, physician

G

• Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist
• Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
• Nüzhet Gökdoğan, astronomer and mathematician
• Fatin Gökmen, astronomer

H

• Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeologist
• Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, polymath
• Halil İnalcık, historian

I

• Fatih Ömer İlday, physicist
• Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist
• Erdal İnönü, physicist, politician
• Ahmet Mete Işıkara, seismologist
• İlber Ortaylı, historian

K

• İhsan Ketin, geologist
• Osman Kibar, engineer and founder of Biosplice
• Ioanna Kuçuradi, Professor of Philosophy, President of Turkish Philosophy Association
• Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist
• Yalçın Küçük, economist, historian and sovietologist
• Çetin Kaya Koç, engineer
• C. Emre Koksal, electrical and computer engineer
• Kâtip Çelebi, polymath and author

L

• Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, scientist, engineer and aviator

M

• Mirim Çelebi, astronomer
• Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer
• Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede, astronomer, astrologer and historian
• Takiyettin Mengişoğlu, philosopher
• Molla Fenari, logician, theologian, scholar, and philosopher

N

• Mustafa Naima, historian
• Matrakçı Nasuh, mathematician, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, and miniaturist
• Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, sociologist and historian

O

• Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
• Mehmet Öz, surgeon and author
• Feryal Özel, astrophysicist
• Hasan Özbekhan, scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher and planner who was professor emeritus

P

• Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, astrophysicist
• Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, sociologist, legist and historian
• İbrahim Peçevi, historian
• Kadrî of Pergamon, linguist

Q

• Ali Kuşçu, astronomer, mathematician, physicist and scientist

R

• Piri Reis, cartographer and admiral
• Kemal Reis, cartographer
• Bursalı Kadızade Rumi, mathematician
• Seydi Ali Reis, cartographer

S

• Gülsün Sağlamer, architect
• Aziz Sancar, biochemist
• Aydın Sayılı, historian of science^{[2] [3] [4]}
• Mustafa Selaniki, historian
• Muzafer Sherif, social psychologist
• Oktay Sinanoğlu, theoretical chemist and molecular biologist
• Uğur Şahin, cancer research, immunology, CEO of BioNTech
• Celâl Şengör, geologist
• Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin, physician
• Serap Z. Tilav, scientist and explorer

T

• Takiyüddin, Ottoman polymath, astronomer
• Semih Tezcan, civil engineer
• Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha, mathematician
• Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, biomedical engineer^[5]
• Özlem Türeci, physician, scientist and entrepreneur; co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech

U

• Turgay Üzer, physicist^[6]

V

• Vamık Volkan, psychiatrist and author

Y

• Nur Yalman, anthropologist
• Gazi Yaşargil, father of modern microneurosurgery
• Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, theologian
• Cem Yıldırım, mathematician
• Cemal Yıldırım, philosopher of science
• Yusuf Has Hacip, political scientist, astronomer, author
• Yunus Emre, poet
• Yakup Çelik, scientist and explorer

References

1. http://phys.lsu.edu/~jdowling/barut.html Asim Orhan Barut
2. http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=1062 In Memory of Aydin Sayili
3. http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=630 Aydin Sayili (1913-1993) At Work: His Scientific Biography
4. Web site: In Memoriam of Aydin Sayili: Biography and Account of his Scientific Activity . 2009-04-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090208065127/http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=535 . 2009-02-08 . dead .
5. http://www.voanews.com/turkish/archive/2005-01/2005-01-09-voa1.cfm Harvard Üniversitesi'nde Türk Profesör
6. http://www.turkishnews.com/gencitu/other.html Homepages of Turkish Faculty Members