Namik Kemal Pak#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1484 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/Admission/ADM-146 |
Namik Kemal Pak passed away November 12, 2015.
Positions Held
- Professor of Physics, Middle East Technical University
Fields of Scholarship
- Standard model and beyond
- Heavy quark physics
- Rare decays
- Lower and higher dimensional field theories (QCD in two dimensions, Chern-Simons Gauge field theories, Chiral Schwinger model)
- Path integral quantization
- Topological structures
- Quantum anomalies
- Monopoles
- Chiral soliton dynamics
- CP violation
- Baryogenesis
- Field theories in multiply-connected spaces
- Anyons
- Aharonov-Bohm effect
- Extra space –time dimensions and symmetry structure (Hosotani mechanism)
- Quantum entangelement and decoherence
- Science-technology-innovation Policies
- Philosophy and history of sciences
Honours and Awards
- Awards:
- Junior Science Prize of TUBITAK, 1979
- Science Prize of TUBITAK, 1989
- Distinguished Lifelong Service Award (for launching Internet in Turkey, and establishing the Research - Academic Network) Turkish Information Society
- Memberships:
- Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), since 1990
- Academia Europaea, since 1993
- Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA); elected 1993-resigned 11 Nov. 2011
- Academy of Sciences, joined in 2012 (a status granted to those resigned from TUBA)
- Associate Member of ICTP, in 1982-1990
