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Akif Baha Balantekin | |
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| Born | |
| Citizenship | USA, Turkish |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist (theoretical) |
| Institutions | Yale University University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Akif Baha Balantekin earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1975 and received a PhD from Yale University in the U.S. in 1982.
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Balantekin is currently the Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics at Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been in Madison, Wisconsin since 1986. Before this, he was the Eugene P. Wigner Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has served as the Chair of the University of Wisconsin Physics Department until 2011. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, Seattle and has been a visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Mitaka, Tokyo, and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
