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.

Selcuk Bayin（1951年出生於土耳其安卡拉）於1974年獲得土耳其中東技術大學（METU）物理系的學士學位，並於1976年和1979年分別在美國密歇根大學安娜堡分校物理系獲得碩士和博士學位。在作為博士後研究員在加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學維多利亞分校度過一年後，他於1981年加入METU擔任物理學助理教授。1983年，他回到美國，在紐約州布法羅的卡尼修斯學院擔任物理學助理教授，度過了兩個難忘的年份。他的職業生涯中一個重要的轉折點是當他回應母校的召喚，回到METU，並於1993年成為正教授。他目前在METU的應用數學研究所工作。他是美國物理學會和土耳其物理學會的成員，也是作者授權和收集協會（ALCS）和國際校友協會（IAA）的成員。他的研究主要集中在宇宙學、廣義相對論和分數微積分及其應用領域。