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Hatice Nüzhet Gökdoğan
(14 August 1910 – 24 April 2003)
Prof. Gökdoğan was a Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic. After studying mathematics and astronomy in France as a young adult, Gökdoğan returned to Turkey, joined the faculty of Istanbul University in 1934.
In 1937 she completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Erwin Freundlich.
She was elected Dean of the university's Faculty of Science in 1954, becoming the first Turkish woman to serve as a university dean, and she was later made Chair of the astronomy department. She significantly expanded the department's capacity and working to improve national and international collaboration between astronomers.
She was also the first woman academician teaching at Istanbul Technical University.
Gökdoğan co-founded the Turkish Mathematical Society, the Turkish Astronomy Association and the Turkish University Women's Association. She was Turkey's first national representative at the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and has been credited as Turkey's first female astronomer.
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