Feza Gürsey, Turkish physicist in United States (Istanbul 07 April 1921 – New Haven 13 April 1992)

Authored over 100 papers

With L. Radicati identified hadronic SU(6) symmetry (1964)

INTRODUCED

Non-linear chiral sigma-model for symmetry (1959)

New ideas on the symmetries of weak and strong interactions

Scalar-field energy-momentum tensor (1960s)

EPONYMY

Pauli-Gursey transformations (1957)

Pauli-Gursey symmetry

Gursey theorem (proved by Van Hove)