- Engin Arık
Engin Arık (
October 14 ,1948 –November 30 ,2007 ) was a renowned Turkishnuclear physicist . [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/30/turkey.jet/index.html Physics expert, baby among plane dead] ,CNN ,November 30 2007 . RetrievedNovember 30 2007 .] She was a professor and head of the ExperimentalHigh Energy Physics group at theBoğaziçi University . [http://www.phys.boun.edu.tr/enginarik.html Engin Arik (Professor)] , Boğaziçi University physics department. RetrievedNovember 30 2007 .] [http://ocean.phys.boun.edu.tr/~engin/ Welcome to my page] , Engin Arik at Boğaziçi University. RetrievedNovember 30 2007 .]Arık was born in
Istanbul and received herBSc in 1969 in mathematics and physics fromIstanbul University . Subsequently, she received herMSc in 1971 andPhD in 1976 in experimental high energy physics from theUniversity of Pittsburgh ,United States . She performed post doctoral studies at theWestfield College inUniversity of London .Returning 1979 to Turkey, she became a member of faculty at Boğaziçi University. In 1983, she left the university to work with
Control Data Corporation for two years. Arık subsequently became a professor at Boğaziçi University in 1988.Between 1997 and 2000, Arık was commissioned by the government to represent Turkey at the sessions of
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty held at theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the UN inVienna ,Austria . [ [http://www.petrogas.com.tr/modules.php?name=Dergi&file=article&sid=20 Petrogas "Who is Prof. Engin Arık"] tr icon ]She was a member of the ATLAS and CAST collaborations at
CERN inSwitzerland . [ [http://consult.cern.ch/xwho/people/371022 CERN xwho (Phonebook) service] ]Arık died in the
Atlasjet Flight 4203 crash onNovember 30 ,2007 . She was married to Metin Arık, also a professor in the same department at Boğaziçi University, and had two children. [ [http://www.zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=619647 Newspaper Zaman November 30, 2007] tr icon]References
External links
* [http://ocean.phys.boun.edu.tr/~engin/web/publication.html Publications list]
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