Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu

Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu (24 January 1924 – 5 September 2024), also known as T. N. Veziroğlu, was a Turkish-American academic and mechanical engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Miami, where he chaired its mechanical engineering department in the 1970s and served as its associate dean for research. A key figure in the advocacy for the hydrogen economy, he was the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy and founding editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. A research center at the University of Niğde, Turkey, is named after him. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for his work on the hydrogen economy.

Early life and education Veziroğlu was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, where he attended elementary and middle school in İzmir, then attended Pertevniyal High School in Istanbul. After attending Istanbul Technical University for one and a half years,

He then accepted a visiting professorship to the Middle East Technical University. In 1973, shortly after the energy crisis, Veziroğlu established the Clean Energy Research Institute within the university, and was its director from 1974 onward. He organized a conference on hydrogen energy in 1974. He became associate dean for research in 1975, and maintained that role through 1979. He was a visiting lecturer at Xi'an Jiatong University during the summer of 1980, and a visiting lecturer at the Atomic Research Laboratories in Argentina during the summer of 1985.

As a researcher in hydrogen energy and two-phase flows, Veziroğlu has co-authored over 300 scientific papers, and was a founding editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Veziroğlu was also named honorary editor-in-chief of Engineering Science and Technology,

He was founding editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and founder of Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. He was president of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, initiator of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference, and initiator of the World Hydrogen Technology Convention.

Personal life Married since 2006 to Ayfer Kale; the couple has one daughter, Lili Ferruh. Veziroğlu was vice president and advisor of hydrogen development for fuel cells at Apollo Energy Systems. Veziroğlu has been a board member of the Learning Disabilities Foundation since 1970. In 2013, Veziroğlu and his family donated money to the University of Miami to establish a named professorship.

Honors Chair, Commission on Energy, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) Turkish Presidential Science Award, 1975 Medal of the City of Paris, Paris, France, 1977 Kurchatov Medal from the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, USSR, 1982 Science Award, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, January 1995

Honorary degrees Honorary doctorate from Anadolu University in Eskişehir, Turkey, October 1998. Honorary doctorate from the Donetsk State Technical University in the Ukraine, March 2001. Honorary professorship, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China, 1981.

Selected publications 1996, "Performance analysis of photovoltaic thermal air heaters," Yigit, Liu, Kakac, Veziroğlu & etc., Elsevier. 2001, "From hydrogen economy to hydrogen civilization," VA Goltsov, TN Veziroğlu, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2002, "Current status of hydrogen energy," M Momirlan, TN Veziroğlu, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier. 2004, "A review of hydrogen storage systems based on boron and its compounds," E Fakioğlu, Y Yürüm, TN Veziroğlu, Elsevier. 2005, "Wind energy and the hydrogen economy — review of the technology,"' SA Sherif, F Barbir, TN Veziroğlu, Solar Energy, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 647–660. 2008, "Advances in biological hydrogen production processes," D Das, TN Veziroğlu, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.