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Feryal Özel

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فريال أوزيل

Istanbul

Turkish-American astrophysicist (born 1975 at Istanbul) specialising in the physics of neutron stars, black holes and magnetars. She graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and took her PhD at Harvard in 2002, was a professor at the University of Arizona, and in 2022 became chair of the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She led the modelling work of the Event Horizon Telescope, which produced the first image of a black hole in 2019, and received the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in 2013 and a share of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize.

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Astronomer · Scientist
Region
Anatolia · Americas & Oceania
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Halim Mahmud

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Istanbul

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    Born in
    Istanbul

    People and things also explored

    Arap Camii, Istanbul· Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque, Istanbul· Eski Imaret Mosque· Eyüp Sultan Mosque· Fenari Isa Mosque· Gul Mosque, Istanbul· Hagia Sophia· Hirami Ahmed Pasha Mosque, Istanbul

    Sources

    • Feryal Özel — English Wikipedia
    • Feryal Özel — Turkish Wikipedia
    • Feryal Özel — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Feryal Özel”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/feryal-ozel/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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    Arap Camii, Istanbul

    Draft card for Arap Camii (the Arab Mosque) in Galata, Istanbul, the former Latin church converted to a mosque and known for its pier-supported minaret; per the cited architecture survey, the page not yet checked.