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  Rare Original Autograph Letter Signed by Eminent British Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac to Theoretical Physicist Behram Kursonoglu

  DIRAC, Paul [Behram Kursonoglu].

  Paul Dirac Autograph Letter Signed.

  1973.

  Rare original autograph letter signed by British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac to Turkish physicist Behram Kursonoglu. One page, on Department of Physics, Florida State University letterhead, FSU watermark, and dated October 22, 1973. The letter is regarding Dirac comparing Kursonoglu's field theory with his own, with several technical remarks. The recipient, Behram Kurşunoğlu (1922–2003), was a Turkish theoretical physicist whose career made him one of the most internationally connected and institutionally consequential scientists produced by the Republic of Turkey in the twentieth century. Born in the small town of Çaykara on Turkey's border with Georgia, he was sent on scholarship to the University of Istanbul, where he graduated in 1945, before proceeding on a Turkish government scholarship to the University of Edinburgh — his arrival in London in August 1945 coinciding with the news of the bombing of Hiroshima, an event he later recalled as defining his sense of the moral stakes of theoretical physics. He pursued postdoctoral work under Paul Dirac at Cambridge — a mentorship that shaped his lifelong preoccupation with unified field theory — before joining the University of Miami as a professor of physics in 1958 and founding its Center for Theoretical Studies i...

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  Rare Original Autograph Letter Signed by American Theoretical Physicist Julian Schwinger to Turkish Theoretical Physicist Behram Kursonoglu

  SCHWINGER, Julian [Behram Kursonoglu].

  Julian Schwinger Autograph Letter Signed.

  Rare original autograph letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger to Turkish physicist Behram Kursonoglu. One page, on Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques stationery, dated January 6, and addressed to Kursonoglu. The letter is regarding Schwinger offering an affirmative response to an invitation to attend the conference on Symmetry Principles at High Energy. The recipient, Behram Kurşunoğlu (1922–2003), was a Turkish theoretical physicist whose career made him one of the most internationally connected and institutionally consequential scientists produced by the Republic of Turkey in the twentieth century. Born in the small town of Çaykara on Turkey’s border with Georgia, he was sent on scholarship to the University of Istanbul, where he graduated in 1945, before proceeding on a Turkish government scholarship to the University of Edinburgh — his arrival in London in August 1945 coinciding with the news of the bombing of Hiroshima, an event he later recalled as defining his sense of the moral stakes of theoretical physics. He pursued postdoctoral work under Paul Dirac at Cambridge — a mentorship that shaped his lifelong preoccupation with unified field theory — before joining the University of Miami as a professor of physics in 19...

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