Bulent Atalay
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Bulent Atalay is an American physicist, artist and author of Turkish descent.
The expression “Renaissance man” has become a cliché, overused in our society to describe anyone who displays multiple interests. In the case of Bulent Atalay, he is a true renaissance man — scientist, artist, author, lecturer… — with genuine academic credentials, BS, MS, MA, PhD. A theoretical nuclear physicist, he is the author of numerous technical articles in physics. An artist, his works have been exhibited in one-man shows in London and Washington. His books of lithographs, ‘Oxford and the English Countryside,’ and ‘The Lands of Washington,’ can be found in the White House, Buckingham Palace and the Smithsonian.
Atalay is the author of the best selling book, ‘Math and the Mona Lisa: the Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci,’ initially published in English by Smithsonian Books (2004), and subsequently in ten foreign languages, including Turkish, Japanese, Chinese and Russian, etc. In 2008 his new book, ‘Leonardo’s Universe: the Renaissance World of Leonardo da Vinci,’ coauthored with Keith Wamsley, is scheduled for release by National Geographic Books.
He lectures around the world on art, archaeology, astrophysics, atomic physics… what he described as his “A-subjects.” He claims that his knowledge of “B-subjects…banking, business…” is superficial at best.
