The Pursuit of Reality: Narrative History of the Quantum and the Great Minds That Made It

Born in Ankara, Turkey (1951), Selcuk Bayin received his B.Sc. (1974) from the Physics Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, and his M.Sc. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) from the Department of Physics of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. After spending a year at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, as a postdoc, he joined METU as an assistant professor of Physics (1981). In 1983, he returned to the USA and spent two memorable years at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, USA, as an assistant professor of Physics. A critical decision point in his career was when he answered the call of his Alma Mater and returned to METU, where he became a full professor (1993). He is currently at the Institute of Applied Mathematics at METU. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Turkish Physical Society. He is also a member of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the International Alumni Association (IAA). His research mainly focuses on cosmology, the general theory of relativity, and fractional calculus and its applications.