Hakkı Boran Ögelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish astrophysicist
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Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
About Hakkı Boran Ögelman
- Hakki Boran Ögelman (July 8, 1940 – September 4, 2011) was a Turkish physicist and astrophysicist.
- He was an expert on gamma ray astronomy, the physics of neutron stars, and solar energy and worked on several key topics in modern astrophysics.
- He made many contributions to high energy astrophysics.
- In his early professional career he engaged in the SAS-II Small Gamma Ray Astronomy Satellite experiment development, data analysis, and first detection and imaging of our universe in gamma rays with his NASA colleagues, as well as in other fields of physics.
- His main interests in the field of astrophysics were the study of gamma ray astronomy and compact objects such as neutron stars and pulsars.
- Ögelman worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey, Max Planck Institute (MPI) at Garching, Germany and the University of Wisconsin.
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