Celâl Şengör

Celâl Şengör
Celal Şengör is a white caucasian male, he has white hair and beard and he has glasses.
Şengör in May 2023
Born
Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör[1]

(1955-03-24) 24 March 1955 (age 68)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Education
Alma mater
OccupationProfessor of Geology (Retired)
EmployerIstanbul Technical University
Known forTectonics of Turkey and Asia
Spouse
Oya Maltepe
​
(m. 1986)​
[2]
Children1
AwardsBigsby Medal (1999)
Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille (2010)
Arthur Holmes Medal (2018)

Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör (Turkish: [ˈali ˈmehmet ˈdʒeɫal ˈʃænɟœɾ]; born 24 March 1955) is a Turkish geologist. He is retired from the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering.[3]

Şengör is a (foreign) member of the American Philosophical Society, the United States National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[4][5] He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science. He is a recipient of Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille — the highest distinction of the Geologische Vereinigung e.V.

Early life

Celal Şengör was born on 24 March 1955, in Istanbul, to an immigrant family from Rumelia.[6] After graduating from Robert College, he received his BS (1978), MS (1979), PhD (1982) degrees from the State University of New York, Albany. He writes a weekly popular science column in the center-left daily Cumhuriyet.[7] He is married and has a son.

Miscellaneous experience in scholarly matters

  • 1978 Co-reviser (for"Geosynclines and Tectonics" section) for the American Geological Institute Glossary of Geology, 2nd edition.
  • 1981 Consultative Committee Member, International Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, Beijing, China
  • 1982 Editorial Advisory board Member of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earthquake Prediction in the North Anatolian Fault Zone, İstanbul, 31 March – 5 April 1980.
  • 1984 International Advisory Panel Member for Tübitak Natural History Museum and Science and Technology Museum (9–12 December 1984).
  • 1985 Co-convener of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Regions, Istanbul, 28 September – 2 October 1985.
  • 1989 Co-convener of Symposium "Tethyan tectonostratigraphic terrane models tested". EUGV, 20–23 March 1989, Strasbourg
  • 1989 Co-convener of symposium B9: "Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Tethyan Basins" International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • 1989 Co-organizer of the Royal Society of London Discussion Meeting on Allochthonous Terranes, 8–9 November 1989, London.
  • 1990 Co-organizer of the Eduard-SUESS-Symposium on the Development of Modern Geology and Austrian-Turkish relationships, 10 and 21 April 1990, İstanbul.
  • 1991 Co-convener of Symposium "Subduction processes, strike-slip faulting and continental collision in the Tethyan orogenic assembly" EUG, 24–28 March, Strasbourg.
  • 1992 Co-convener of Symposium I-3-24 "Tectonic evolution of Tethyan and adjacent areas" 29th Int. Geol. Congr., Kyoto, Japan, 28 August 1992
  • 1996 Co-convener of two symposia in the 30th Int. Geol. Congress, Beijing, China, but was unable to attend.
  • 1999 Co-convener of Symposium D06, "Inter-Relations between Palasexo-Tethys and Neotethys in Europe and Asia" EUG 10, 28 March-1 April, Strasbourg, pp. 189 ff.)
  • 2002 Member of Wissenschaftliches Kommitee of Pangeo I, Austria, Erdwissenschaften in Österreich/Earth Sciences in Austria, 28. — 30. 6. 2002, Salzburg.
  • 2009 Chairman of the 62nd Geological Kurultai [=Congress] of Turkey, 13–17 April, Ankara, Turkey

Membership in scientific societies

Distinguished lectures

  • 'The Tectonics of Asia': James Wright Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh Geological Society, 30 March 1988, Edinburgh.
  • 'Evolution of the Tethys': Annual Lecture of the Sylvester-Bradley Geological Society, 16 February 1990, Leicester.
  • 'Turkic-type orogeny in the Altaids: Implications for the evolution of continental crust': The 34th Bennett Lecture, Geology Department, Leicester University, 8 March 1993
  • 'Eduard Suess "Die Tethys" Vor 100 Jahrein und Heute': Festvortrag anläßlich der 100 jährigen Geschichte des Begriffs am 18. November 1993 ('Eduard Suess "The Tethys" 100 years ago and today': Celebration lecture on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the "Tethys" concept, University of Vienna).
  • İhsan Ketin: Hayatı ve Eserleri (İhsan Ketin: His Life and Work): The First Ketin Lecture, Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, 16 December 1996
  • 'Tectonics of the Altaids in Asia, and the evolution of the continental crust' and 'Is the present the key to the past or is the past the key to the present: An ongoing debate in geology as a general problem in historical sciences': Lewis G. Weeks Lectures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 4 and 5 October 2001.
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer, 9 to 19 March 2004, Eastern Europe (Budapest, Bratislava, Brno, Prag, Warsaw, Bucharest, Kyiv)
  • 'The Geology of the Middle East': The 6th Annual Robert E. Sheriff Dinner Lecture, University of Houston Geoscience Department and the University of Houston Geoscience Alumni Association, 15 November 2004.

Fossils named after Şengör

  • Sengoerina argandi ALTINER, 1999: Altıner, D., 1999, Sengoerina argandi, n. gen., n. sp., and its position in the evolution of Late Permian biseriamminid foraminifers: Micropaleontology, v. 45, pp. 215–22.[9]
  • Dicapnuchosphaera sengori TEKİN, 1999: Tekin, U. K., 1999, Biostratigraphy and Systematics of Late Middle to Late Triassic Radiolarians from the Taurus Mountains and Ankara Region, Turkey: Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck, Sonderband 5, pp. 296 (see p. 75 and plate 5, figs. 3-6).[10]
  • Sengoerichthys ottoman JANVIER, CLÉMENT and CLOUTIER, 2007: Janvier, P., Clément, G. and Cloutier, R., 2007, A primitive megalichthyid fish (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Upper Devonian of Turkey and its biogeographical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 29, pp. 249–268.[11]

Recognition

1988 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel[12]

Publications

Books

  • 1982 (with A. Miyashiro and K. Aki) Orogeny: J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 242 pp.[13]
  • 1984 The Cimmeride Orogenic System and the Tectonics of Eurasia: Geological Society of America Special Paper 195, xi+82 pp.[14]
  • 1989 (Editor). Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Region: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.[15]
  • 1990 (Co-editor with J.F. Dewey, Ian G. Gass, G.B. Curry, and N.B.W. Harris) Allochthonous Terranes: Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, v. 331, pp. 455–647.[16]
  • 1992 Plate Tectonics and Orogeny - A Tethyan Perspective: Fu Dan University Press, Shanghai, 4 +2 + 182 pp. (in Chinese; this book is a combined translation of items 88 and 97 in the Papers section plus a preface added on 6 July 1991)[17]
  • 1998 (with N. Görür, A. Okay, N. Özgül, O. Tüysüz, M. Sakınç, R. Akkök, E., Yiğitbaş, T. Genç, S. Örçen, T. Ercan, B. Akyürek, F. Şaroğlu) Türkiye'nin Triyas-Miyosen Paleocoğrafya Atlası, editör: Naci Görür (Triassic to Miocene Palaeogeographic Atlas of Turkey, Naci Görür, editor): İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Maden Fakültesi, Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü, Genel Jeoloji Anabilim Dalı TÜBİTAK—Global Tektonik Araştırma Ünitesi ve Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü, Jeoloji Etütleri Dairesi, Ankara, [IV]+41pp.+30 pp. of maps and sections, oblong elephant folio.[18]
  • 2001 Is the Present the Key to the Past or the Past the Key to the Present? James Hutton and Adam Smith versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in Interpreting History: Geological Society of America Special Paper 355, x+51 pp.[19]
  • 2001 (with X. Le Pichon and E. Demirbağ) Marine Atlas of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) IFREMER, Paris, 13 pp. of Explanatory text, 11 foldout maps.[20]
  • 2003 The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere: Materials for a history of the evolution of thought from the earliest times to plate tectonics: Geological Society of America Memoir 196, xvii+347 pp.+ 3 folded plates in pocket[21]
  • 2004 Yaşamın Evrimi Fikrinin Darwin Dönemi Sonuna Kadarki Tarihi (History of the Idea of the Evolution of Life to the End of Darwin's Period): İTÜ Yayınevi, İstanbul, 187 pp.[22]
  • 2005 Une Autre Histoire de la Tectonique: Leçons Inaugurales du Collège de France, Fayard, Paris, 79 pp.[23]
  • 2006 99 Sayfada İstanbul Depremi (The İstanbul Earthquake in 99 Pages): İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 99 pp.[24]
  • 2009 (with S. Atayman) The Permian Extinction and the Tethys: An Exercise in Global Geology: Geological Society of America Special Paper 448, x+96 pp.[25]
  • 2009 Globale Geologie und ihr Einfluss auf das Denken von Eduard Suess Der Katastrophismus Uniformitarianismus-Streit: Scripta Geo-Historica, v. 2, 181 pp.[26]
  • 2009 (with B. A. Natal’in) Rifti Mira (uchebno-spavochnoye posobie): Geokart, Moskva, 187 pp. (Russian translation of item 166 below plus a preface)

References

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  2. ^ "Celal Şengör Kimdir". timeturk.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  3. ^ "ITU Genel Jeoloji Ogretim Elemanlari - Faculty of General Geology Division, Celal Sengor, Naci Gorur, Aral Okay, Okan Tuysuz, Namik Cagatay, Nilgun Okay, Serdar Akyuz, ErcanOzcan, Ziyadin Cakir, Boris Natalin". Web.itu.edu.tr. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Serbian Academy's foreign member Celâl Ali Mehmet Şengör of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geosciences". sanu.ac.rs. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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  9. ^ "Sengoerina Altiner, 1999" (PDF). Micropress.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  10. ^ "Dicapnuchosphaera sengori". Fossilworks. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  11. ^ "A primitive megalichthyid fish (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha)" (PDF). Mnhn.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  12. ^ Robelli, Enver (16 September 2022). "Repression in der Türkei – Warum die Justiz einen Erdbebenforscher drangsaliert". Berner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  13. ^ Orogeny (Book, 1984). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 468016389.
  14. ^ "The Cimmeride Orogenic System and the Tectonics of Eurasia" (PDF). Specialpapers.gsapubs.org. Retrieved 18 November 2013.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ Şengör, A. M. C, ed. (1989). Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Region. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2253-2. ISBN 978-94-009-2253-2.
  16. ^ "Allochthonous Terranes by J. F. Dewey | Hardcover | Barnes & Noble". Barnesandnoble.com. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  17. ^ Celalsengor, A. (30 April 1990). "Plate tectonics and orogenic research after 25 years: A Tethyan perspective". Earth-Science Reviews. 27 (1–2): 1–201. Bibcode:1990ESRv...27....1C. doi:10.1016/0012-8252(90)90002-D.
  18. ^ "Jeoloji Etütleri Daire Başkanlığı". Mta.gov.tr. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  19. ^ "Geological Society of America - Philosophy of the Guessing Game of Geology - Press Release". Geosociety.org. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  20. ^ Marine Atlas of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey): Data Collected on Board R.V. Le ... - Claude Rangin, Emin Demirbağ, Caner İmren, Alban Crusson, Xavier Le Pichon, A. M. Celâl Ţengör. 2 May 2002. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  21. ^ A.M.C. Şengör (1 April 2009). "The Large-Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere: Materials for a History of the Evolution of Thought from the Earliest Times to Plate Tectonics". Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/978-0-8137-1196-7-196.0.1. ISBN 9780813711966. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2013. {cite book}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ "İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Vakfı". Ituvakif.org.tr. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  23. ^ "Une autre histoire de la tectonique" (in French). Fayard.fr. 20 April 2005. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  24. ^ Celal Şengör. "99 Sayfada İstanbul Depremi | Simurg Kitabevi Sahaf Müzayede, Türkiye'nin Entelektüel Birikimi Books on Turkey | İndirimli, Yeni, İkinci el, Nadir, Osmanlıca, Yabancı dil, Kitaplar, Dergiler". Simurg.com.tr. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  25. ^ The Permian Extinction and the Tethys: An Exercise in Global Geology - A. M. Celâl ?engör, Saniye Atayman. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  26. ^ Globale Geologie und ihr Einfluss auf das Denken von Eduard Suess: Der Katastrophismus-Uniformitarianismus-Streit: Amazon.co.uk: A. M. Celâl Sengör: Books. 9 September 2009. ASIN 3701101671.

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