Namık Kemal Aras

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He was born on November 15, 1935 in Kızılcaören village of Tokat-Reşadiye District, and came to Ankara after completing primary school in this village. After graduating from Ankara University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, he completed his doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as Turkey's first NATO overseas doctoral scholar in 1959, on "the reaching distances and energies of the products produced during the fission of the atomic nucleus". completed. He started as an assistant professor at METU in 1966 and became an associate professor in 1968 and a professor in 1973. He served as vice rector, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and head of the Chemistry Department. He served as Director of Ankara Nuclear Research Center in 1978-79, and as Vice President and Deputy Chairman of the Turkish Atomic Energy Agency in 1982-85. In addition to his studies abroad, he worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1964-66, at the University of Maryland in 1971-73 and 1979-82, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992-93, and also for short periods in Belgium, Germany, Denmark, He conducted research and gave lectures at universities in many countries including Taiwan. Prof. Dr. Aras published his works in more than 100 original articles, especially in well-known journals abroad, and presented them in 160 international conferences, and his works were cited nearly 1500 times. Prof. by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The book "Trace Element Analysis of Food and Diet", written jointly with Osman Yavuz Ataman, was published in 2006. Prof. Dr. Aras, with his scientific studies and works; He received the TÜBİTAK Science Award in 1984, the Turkish Chemical Society Science Award in 1992, and is also an Honorary Member of the Turkish Chemical Society, a Full Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 1996, a Council Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 1998, and an Associate of Asian Sciences in 2000. He became a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Academies and Secretary General of the Union of Asian Academies of Sciences in 2004.Prof. has been the Vice President of the Association of Asian Academies of Sciences since 2012. Most of Aras's 57-year scientific life was spent with basic and applied research on nuclear issues; He discovered two new radio isotopes and supervised the thesis of dozens of master's and doctoral students.

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