Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu

Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu
Veziroğlu in 2018
Born
Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu

(1924-01-24)January 24, 1924
DiedSeptember 5, 2024(2024-09-05) (aged 100)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
EducationPertevniyal High School
Alma materUniversity of London (BS, PhD)
Imperial College of Science and Technology (DIC)
Occupations
  • Academic
  • mechanical engineer
  • research director
  • author
Known forPioneer in hydrogen energy
Founding editor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Initiator of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference
AwardsTurkish Presidential Science Award (1975)
Kurchatov Medal (1982)
Nobel Prize nominee (2000)
Websitewww.iahe.org

Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu (24 January 1924 – 5 September 2024), also known as T. N. Veziroğlu, was a Turkish-American academic and mechanical engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Miami, where he chaired its mechanical engineering department in the 1970s and served as its associate dean for research. A key figure in the advocacy for the hydrogen economy, he was the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy and founding editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. A research center at the University of Niğde, Turkey, is named after him. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for his work on the hydrogen economy.