Turkish air crash is a great loss for physics

摘要

The news of the untimely deaths of sixTurkish physicists, Engin Arik, Berkol Dogan and Engin Abat from Bogazici University, and Senel Boydag, Iskender Hikmet and Mustafa Fidan from Dogus University, was a shock for many in the physics community. The physicists were killed when their flight from Istanbul to Isparta crashed on 30 November. They were travelling to a workshop on the Turkish Accelerator Centre, a project involving a collaboration of 10 Turkish universities.