# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/engin-ar-k
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:03.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/engin-ar-k"
name: "Engin Arık"
slug: "engin-ar-k"
description: "Engin Arık was a Turkish particle physicist and professor at Boğaziçi University. She led the Turkish participation in a number of experiments at CERN. Arık was a prominent supporter of Turkey's membership to CERN and the founding of a national particle accelerator center as a means to utilize thorium as an energy source. She has also represented Turkey at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization for a number of years. She died in the Atlasjet Flight 4203 crash on November 30, 2007."
tagline: "Turkish physicist (1948–2007)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-10-14"
deathDate: "2007-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.76040666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "انجين اريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Енгин Арък"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engin_Ar%C4%B1k"
    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engin_Ar%C4%B1k"
    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engin_Ar%C4%B1k"
    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A2%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "انگین آریک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engin_Ar%C4%B1k"
    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Էնգին Արըք"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engin_Ar%C4%B1k"
    title: "Engin Arık"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q545883"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump