UNIT 1 SELF-EXPLORATION

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

KEY TO SUCCESS?

Do you know these people? In what fields have these people been successful?

a. Cahit Arf

Cahit Arf ( ) He was a Turkish Matematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a qaudratic form in characteristic in topology, the Hasse-Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.

M. KEMAL KURDAŞ

Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş ( ) He was a Turkish economist who served as Turkish Minister of Finance, the IMF’s adviser to Latin American governments, president of the Middle East Technical Univfersity and deputy head of the Turkish Treasury

TÜRKAN SAYLAN

Türkan Saylan (1935 – 2009) She was a Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist. She was famous for fighting leprosy. She was also a champion of women’s rights and education for poor children in Turkey. She was the founder of a charity called «Association for the Support of Contemporary Living» (Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği, ÇYDD).

MARGARET CHAN

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun (born in 1947, Hong Kong) She is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of WHO, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day. Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government ( ), representative of the WHO Director- General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases ( ).

Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Vana Rousseff (Born in 1947, Brazil) She is a Brazilian politician who has been the 36 th President of Brazil since 1 January She is the first woman to hold the office. She was previously the Chief of Staff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.

FEZA GÜRSOY

Feza Gürsey (1921 – 1992) He was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics, his works on the Chiral Model and on Su are most popular. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1940, and received his degree in Mathematics – Physics from Istanbul University in He pursued a doctorate degree at the Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. He completed his work on Application of Qaternions to Quantum Field Theory in After spending the period from 1950–1951 in postdoctoral research at Cambridege University, he worked as an assistant at Istanbul University.

MUHTAR A. KENT

Muhtar A. Kent (born in 1952) He is a Turkish-American business executive. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company. He was appointed to the position of CEO of the Company in 2008 and became Chairman of the Board in 2009.