---OBITUARY---Prof. Feza GURSEY

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Author: SEMIBRA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 05:51

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       PROFESSOR FEZA GURSEY       1921-1992
 
  Feza Gursey, retired Joshua Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics from
Yale University; inventor of the Nonlinear Sigma Model, the SU(6) hadron
classification and E6 grand unification; popularizer of quaternion and
octonion algebras in high energy physics; author of more than 100 papers
in high energy physics, general relativity, nuclear physics, solid state
physics and statistical physics; one of the founders of the physics department
of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey; winner of the
Turkish Scientific And Technical Research Council's Science Award,
Oppenheimer Award, Morrison Award, Einstein Medal, Wigner Medal,
College de France Medal, Istanbul University Medal,
`Commendatore' title of the Republic of Italy; educator; very special person.
He died today (April 13,1992) from the cancer that had been diagnosed last
summer.

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