Physical scientist (B. 1922,
Çaykara / Trabzon - D. 25th October
2003, Miami / Florida / USA). His family was from the village of Aydıncık, of
the Merkez town of Bayburt. After having completed his high school education in
Trabzon, he studied at Ankara University and Edinburg University in England.
After that, he completed his physics doctorate in the Cambridge University that
is also in England. He lived in the United States of America (USA) since the
year of 1958 and he conducted most of his works there. His house and working
room in Florida witnessed the visit of many people especially contributing to
science.
Prof. Kurşunoğlu, who
put forward a new theory named “Genelleştirilmiş
İzafiyet Teorisi (The Generalized Relativity Theory)” by making studies on the combination of the general
relativity theory of Albert Einstein and the electromagnetism, was the owner of
many awards.
He started to exchange letters with Albert
Einstein during his doctorate study in Cambridge by the end of the 1940s. When
he went to the Cornell University in America to make researches in the year of 1953,
Einstein invited him to his house. He discussed with Einstein in his house for
4 hours continuously. At that time, Prof. Kurşunoğlu was 31 years old and
Einstein was 74 years old. He made important studies on the nonsymmetrical
gravity theory together with Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger. In the year
of 1952, he went to the Cornell University in America to make researches. He
returned to Turkey in 1955 in order to accomplish his military service.
Behram Kurşunoğlu
continued his works on the Atomic Energy in the 1950s in
In addition to his works
at Florida University, Kurşunoğlu presided one of the important research
centers of America named Global Foundations. In 1965, he founded the “
Again in the year of 1965, he
educated scientists by organizing post-doctorate studies in the center in Carl
Gables and he created a forum with the scientists who came to this center from
time to time in order to have an exchange of ideas until he retired in 1992. According
to the statement of the retired physics professor Dr. Arnodl Perlmutter who
helped to the management of the Center, 35 of the scientists coming to work in
the Center were the Nobel Prize winners. Kurşunoğlu stayed there until the
closing of this Center in 1992 and he realized the Orbis Scientiae meetings in
this Center till he retired.
In 1969, he started the
Robert Oppenheimer Science Award together with six scientists who earned the
Nobel Prize. He was assigned as the president of the International Energy Forum,
including six Nobel Prize winner scientists.
Behram Kurşunoğlu reserved a big
part of his studies to the development of “Birleşik
Alan Teorisi (the Unified Field
Theory)”. In the later years, he
was interested in the subjects of nuclear energy. He gained a reputation in the
entire world with the researches he made on the Quantum Physics and especially
as the person who put forward the “Genelleştirilmiş
İzafiyet Teorisi (Generalized Relativity
Theory)”. The last project he was working on was about the creation of the
universe. This subject was also investigated for many years by Einstein and his
famous colleague Erwin Schrödinger. Kurşunoğlu wrote many books in his
professional life.
Kurşunoğlu, who thought that the universe was “in a transitional period”, was planning to organize a conference about water in Turkey before his death. Because he had the opinion that “water and energy subjects will be biggest problems of the century we are living in”. Another conference he was thinking about was on the subject of the danger of the expansion of nuclear guns. According to Kurşunoğlu, “the wisdom and science would win sooner or later”. He received the Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bilim Ödülü (T.N. Presidency Science Award) in 1972 and he was given Atatürk Özel Ödülü (T.N. the Ataturk Special Award) in 2001 by virtue of his contributions to science. Approximately one month before his death, he prepared for publication the book he wrote in English with the concern of leaving a lasting work to all the scientists of the world. However, this book could not be published because he deceased from a sudden hearth attack. He deceased in the city of Miami of USA on 25th October 2003, when he was 82 years old and he was buried in the same city. Kurşunoğlu, who was also known with the series of Coral Gables Conferences that he organized since the year of 1964, deceased from a heart attack a short time before the conference of the year 2003. From his wife named Sevda (Arif), he had two children named İsmet and Sevil (Kurşunoğlu-Brahme), who are doctors, and a daughter named Ayda (Weiss), a lawyer.
Instead of the popular
theory named “Büyük Patlama (Big Bang)” describing the creation of
the universe, Prof. Dr. Kurşunoğlu put forward the “Genelleştirilmiş
İzafiyet Teorisi (Generalized
Relativity Theory)” through scientific
experiments and he scientifically described it as in the following:
“The
owner of the biggest power, Allah has generated the universe to create and to
manage it. There are principle and magnetic charges in the universe. This
theory named as the Orbitron Theory includes the theoretical works in the
universe…During the first three seconds of the creation of the universe; the 108° particle forming a big part of the universe was
generated. Before the beginning of time, the before-time powers covering the
universe had an area. After billions of years, this area collapsed because of
the very high gravity and the “micro-blackholes” that were trillions of times
smaller than an atom were generated. The half of these holes was formed from the
matter and the other half from the antimatter having a different structure. A
big fire starting from these holes in before-time dispersed to the universe.
The collision of the matter and the antimatter has created explosions that
destroyed everything. When the matter and the antimatter dissociated as a
result of decomposition, new particles and eventually stars, planets,
anti-planets and humans and most probably anti-humans were created.”
MAIN WORKS: Modern Quantum Theory (1962), Büyük Bir Fizikçiyi Anımsarken:
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.