Mustafa Halilsoy
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(Born February 25, 1949, Ayios Nicholoas (Paphos) - Cyprus)
Professor Mustafa Halilsoy is a prominent Cypriot theoretical physicist, and received his PhD degree in physics from Middle East Technical University specializing in gravitational physics.
He is best known on his contribution "the Nutku-Halil Solution for Colliding Impulsive Gravitational Waves" where this work is cited by many other researchers i.e. [1]. [2].
Professor Halilsoy is still actively working on gravitational physics at Eastern Mediterranean University in the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, focusing on exact solutions in general relativity. His analytic descriptions of colliding gravitational waves and singularity problems appeared in astro-physical black-holes, nonlinear problems appeared in Mathematical Physics as well as fields and particles.
[edit] External links
- Academic Webpage
- Derivation of Nutku-Halil Solution by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Original Halil-Nutku paper appeared on Physical Review Letters