Nihat Berker

Ahmet Nihat Berker[3]
Born (1949-09-20) 20 September 1949 (age 75)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
CitizenshipTurkey, United States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forRenormalization group, Critical phenomena, Phase Transitions
SpouseBedia Erim Berker
ChildrenSelim Berker, Ratip Emin Berker
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsApplied and Soft matter physics, Statistical mechanics and Condensed matter physics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Harvard University[1]
Technical University of Istanbul
Sabancı University
Kadir Has University
Thesis Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena: Universality and Global Multicritical Phase Diagrams from Position-Space Renormalization-Group Studies[2]
Notable studentsMehran Kardar

Ahmet Nihat Berker (born 20 September 1949) is a Turkish scientist, theoretical chemist, physicist and emeritus professor of physics at MIT. Currently, he is the acting Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences in Kadir Has University, Turkey. He is the son of a notable scientist and engineer Ratip Berker, who was deceased on 17 October 1997. His wife, Bedia Erim Berker,[4] is a professor of chemistry at Istanbul Technical University, and one of his sons, Selim Berker, is a professor of epistemology in the department of philosophy at Harvard University.[5][6][7] His other son, Ratip Emin Berker, is an alumnus of Harvard and a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference vita was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Nihat Berker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Ahmet Nihat Berker was elected to The American Physical Society Fellow in 1988 for the development of the position space renormalization group technique and its application to studies of phase transitions in physisorbed systems and liquid crystals.
  4. ^ Bedia Erim Berker, Technical University of Istanbul,
  5. ^ Selim Berker, ethics and epistemology professor.
  6. ^ Selim Berker Archived 19 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
  7. ^ "Prof. A. Nihat Berker, Kadir Has University | Professor of Physics, Emeritus".
  8. ^ Ratip Emin Berker, Doctoral Research Assistant.
  9. ^ Emin Berker, Non-Resident Tutor.
  10. ^ Emin Berker, PhD Student.