Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu
Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu | |
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Veziroğlu in 2018 | |
| Born | Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu January 24, 1924 |
| Died | September 5, 2024 (aged 100) |
| Education | Pertevniyal High School |
| Alma mater | University of London (BS, PhD) Imperial College of Science and Technology (DIC) |
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| Known for | Pioneer in hydrogen energy Founding editor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Initiator of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference |
| Awards | Turkish Presidential Science Award (1975) Kurchatov Medal (1982) Nobel Prize nominee (2000) |
| Website | www |
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.