Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu (24 January 1924[1] – 5 September 2024[2]), sometimes referred to as TN Veziroglu, was a professor emeritus at the University of Miami,[3] and during the 1970s chaired its mechanical engineering department and was its associate dean for research.
After attending Istanbul Technical University for one and a half years,[7] he became a student in England during World War II, receiving a B.Sc.
He worked as an engineer and scientific advisor for the Office of Soil Products in Ankara from 1954 to 1956, including as Deputy Director of Steel Silos.
He was an engineering consultant in Istanbul during 1957 and 1958, then worked in his family's business, Veziroğlu Construction Company, as technical director from 1959 to 1961.
He was made a full member of their research faculty in 1969, serving as Director of Graduate Studies from 1965 to 1971, and as chairman of the department of Mechanical Engineering from 1971 through 1975.
[citation needed] Veziroğlu created the first engineering Ph.D program at the university, and in 1974 was organizer of an early conference on hydrogen energy.
[citation needed] In his seventies, Veziroğlu took a leave of absence from the University of Miami, becoming founding director of International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies.