Erdal İnönü

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Erdal İnönü, (born 6 June 1926 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish physicist and politician. He is the son of the second president of the Turkish Republic, İsmet İnönü. Leader of Social Democratic People's Party between 1983 and 1993, he served as Deputy Prime Minister between 1991 and 1993 and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for some six months in 1995.

He graduated from the Physics Department University of Ankara Faculty of Sciences (Turkish) of the Ankara University in 1947 and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1951. Upon his return to Turkey, İnönü served first as an assistant professor at the Ankara University. Between 1964-1974, he was professor of physics at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. İnönü moved in 1974 to Bosphorus University in Istanbul and served here until he co-founded the Social Democratic People's Party in 1983.

Prof. İnönü was the first chair of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Middle East Technical University (1960-1966). He initiated research on neutron transport during that time. During 1969-1971, he was the dean of the faculty of art and sciences. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Sabancı University in Istanbul.

He is the 2004 recipient of the Wigner medal, administered by the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, for his contributions to group contractions, see İnönü-Wigner contraction.

İnönü is also known for his work on the history of science in the Turkish Republic and Ottoman Empire. Currently he is a faculty member at Sabanci University.

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Preceded by
Murat Karayalçın		 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
1995		 Succeeded by
Ali Coşkun Kırca


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Bekir Sami Kunduk • Ahmet Muhtar Mollaoğlu • Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk • İsmet İnönü • Şükrü Kaya • Tevfik Rüştü Aras • Şükrü Saracoğlu • Numan Menemencioğlu • Hasan Saka • Necmettin Sadak • Mehmet Fuat Köprülü • Adnan Menderes • Fatin Rüştü Zorlu • Ethem Menderes • Selim Sarper • Feridun Cemal Erkin • Hasan Esat Işık • İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil • Osman Olcay • Haluk Bayülken • Turan Güneş • Metin Esenbel • Gündüz Ökçün • Hayrettin Erkmen • Ertuğrul Ekrem Ceyhun • İlter Türkmen • Vahit Melih Halefoğlu • Mesut Yılmaz • Ali Bozer • Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemoçin • Safa Giray • Hikmet Çetin • Mümtaz Soysal • Murat Karayalçın • Erdal İnönü • Coşkun Kırca • Deniz Baykal • Emre Gönensay • Tansu Çiller • İsmail Cem • Şükrü Sina Gürel • Yaşar Yakış • Abdullah Gül


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