| LC control no. | n 50025695 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Freely, John |
| Associated place | Istanbul (Turkey) |
| Located | Bath (England) |
| Birth date | 1926-06-26 |
| Death date | 2017-04-20 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Physics Travel Biography Science--History |
| Affiliation | University of the Bosporus New York University Roberts College |
| Found in | Sumner-Boyd, H. Strolling through Istanbul, 1972 LC files (b. 1926) The companion guide to Istanbul and around the Marmara, 2000: t.p. (John Freely) p. 4 of cover (prof. of physics, Univ. of the Bosporus, Istanbul; has lived on America's east coast, in Britain, and around the Mediterranean, and, for many years, in Turkey) The house of memory, 2017: ECIP t.p. (John Freely) data view (b. 1926, in Brooklyn, New York; served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946; graduated from Princeton University; Ph.D. in nuclear physics from New York University; taught physics for more than 50 years at Roberts College, now called the University of the Bosphorus in Istanbul; author of more than 60 books on Turkey, Greece, biographical figures, and the history of science; lives now in Bath, England) Guardian WWW site, viewed June 6, 2017 (John Freely, writer, born 26 June 1926; died 20 April 2017; in 1960 a chance encounter with a former teacher at Robert College, Istanbul, persuaded them to move with their young children to Turkey, where John took up a post teaching theoretical physics at the college; at Robert College, which has since become Bosphorus University, John devised a course in the history of science that over the years attracted countless devoted students) A study of the pre-breakdown currents in oxygen and helium, 1960: t.p. (John Brendan Freely; Department of Physics; Ph. D.; New York University) |
| Associated language | eng |
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