Mahmoud Hessabi

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Mahmoud Hessabi
Mahmoud Hessabi
Minister of Culture and Higher Education
In office
6 May 1951 – 16 July 1952
Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh
Preceded byKarim Sanjabi
Succeeded byMehdi Azar
Senator from Tehran
In office
22 January 1950 – 9 May 1961
Appointed byMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Personal details
Born(1903-02-23)23 February 1903
Tehran, Iran
Died3 September 1992(1992-09-03) (aged 89)
Geneva, Switzerland
Resting placeTafresh, Iran
Alma materAmerican University of Beirut, Sorbonne, École Superieure d'Electricité
Occupationscientist

Mahmoud Hessabi (or Hessaby, Persian: محمود حسابی, February 23, 1903 – September 3, 1992) was an Iranian nuclear physicist and senator.[1] He was the minister of education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh from 1951 to 1952.[2]

Life

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Hessabi was born in Tehran to the family of Abbas and Goharshad Hessabi. His family's hometown is Tafresh, Markazi province, Iran.[3] His family moved to Beirut in 1907 when his father was appointed consul at the Iranian embassy.[4] There Hessabi attended primary school. He was still in secondary school when World War I started prompting the closure of his school; Hessabi continued his education at home and in 1922, he earned a degree in road engineering from the American University of Beirut. After briefly working for the Ministry of Roads, Beirut, Hessabi travelled to Paris for further education, he was awarded a degree in electrical engineering at the École Superieure d'Electricité and later a doctorate degree in 1927. In Paris, he worked with Aime Cotton.[5]

In Tehran, Hessabi was affiliated with the University of Tehran and organized the science and engineering faculties of the university; He was teacher of Alenush Terian while she studied at the university.[6] In June 1951, Hessabi was appointed to a three-man provincial board of the Iranian oil company, the designated successor of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. In December, 1951, he replaced Karim Sanjaby as minister of education.[1] Between 1961 and 1969, Hessabi was Iran's representative on the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Museum

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In 1992 his house changed to a museum to for recognition of his life. The Mahmoud Hessabi museum is located Tajrish neighborhood in Tehran.

Selected works

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  • Hessaby M. (1947). "Continuous Particles". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 33 (6): 189–194. Bibcode:1947PNAS...33..189H. doi:10.1073/pnas.33.6.189. PMC 1079021. PMID 16588741.
  • Hessaby M. (May 1948). "Theoretical Evidence for the Existence of a Light-Charged Particle of Mass Greater than That of the Electron". Phys. Rev. 73 (9=): 1128. Bibcode:1948PhRv...73.1128H. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.73.1128.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Iran Bank Fights Drain on Exchange: Opening of Credit Abroad for Imports Suspended in Step to Protect Currency". The New York Times. New York. 5 December 1951.
  2. ^ Alexander, Yonah; Nanes, Allan S. (1980). The United States and Iran: A Documentary History. Aletheia Books. p. 244. ISBN 9780890933787.
  3. ^ "Iranian Personalities: Professor Mahmoud Hessabi". Iran Chamber Society.
  4. ^ H. E. Chehabi; Hassan I. Mneimneh (2007). "Five Centuries of Lebanese–Iranian Encounters". In H. E. Chehabi (ed.). Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years. New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 18. ISBN 9781860645617.
  5. ^ Tarikhi, Parviz (2014). The Iranian Space Endeavor: Ambitions and Reality. Springer. p. 47.
  6. ^ Talebian, Mohammad; Talebian, Ehsan (2012). "Alenush Terian: The Iranian Solar Mother". Physics in Perspective. 14 (2): 239–241. Bibcode:2012PhP....14..239T. doi:10.1007/s00016-012-0085-x. S2CID 120601020.
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