Nüzhet Gökdoğan

Astronom

Doğum
14 Ağustos, 1910
Ölüm
14 Mayıs, 2003
Eğitim
University of Lyon Mathematics
Burç

Astronomer (B. August 14, 1910, Istanbul, Turkey - D. April 24, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey). His father was Major General Mehmet Zihni Toydemir friend of Atatürk from the army and her mother was Nebihe Hanım. She was the wife of co-founder of Istanbul Technical University, and former Minister of Public Works, Mukbil Gökdoğan and the mother of Prof. Dr. Gönül Gökdoğan, retired from the Conservatory of Istanbul University and Prof. Dr. Can Gökdoğan, at Cerrahpaşa Medicine Faculty.  She is the first woman astronomer and dean of Turkey.

After graduating from Erenköy Kız High School, she won a state scholarship and went to France to have undergraduate education on mathematics-physics program  (1928). After completing her mathematics undergraduate education at the University of Lyon in 1932, she received the certificate of  “Diplome d'Etudes supérieures” from the University of Paris. Following her internship at Paris Observatory for a while, she returned home. She was the first Turkish professor at Istanbul University who was assigned to the chair of astronomy, which was established after the university reform. In 1936, she was appointed as assistant professor to the Istanbul Technical University and she was the first woman employee of the institution. She stayed in her position until 1946.

In 1937, she completed her doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Science of Istanbul University. Her study was recorded as the “first” doctorate thesis (Contributions aux Recherches sur l’existence d’une Matière Obscure Interstellaire Homogène Autourdu Soleil) in the records of Istanbul University’s Faculty of Science.  She became an associate professor in 1940 and became a professor in 1948. She was among the founders of Turkish Mathematical Society (1948) and of Turkish Women's Association (1949). She served as the president of Turkish Women's Association at various times. She was chosen as the representative of our country for the International Astronomical Union and the member of Committees of Solar Physics and Spectroscopy. In 1954, she founded Turkish Astronomical Society along with a few astronomers and was the chairman of the society for twenty years.

She was chosen as the dean of Faculty of Science of Istanbul University in June 23, 1954. Beginning from 1958, she served as president of the astronomy department for twenty-two years. She organized the “Keppler Symposium” which astronomers from Turkey and Balkans joined together at the Astronomy Department in December 1971. She was chosen as dean for the second time in 1978. While continuing her position as the dean and the head of the department; she retired in 1980. Throughout her academic life, she translated her own books, as well as other scientific works. Developing joint research programs with Meudon and Nice Observatories in France, Basel Observatory in Switzerland and Asiago Observatory in Italy, her articles were published in many international journals of science.

 

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