September 14, 2005

Hadi Hadizadeh and his daughter Nastaran, who will start her PhD work in condensed-matter physics at Northwestern University this fall; the rest of the family is in Iran.

Politics Shapes Life for Iranian Physicist
Free on bail and currently visiting the US, an Iranian physicist wonders if it's safe to go home.

Physics Today Online: Mohammad Hadi Hadizadeh Yazdi and his daughter Nastaran, would like nothing more than to teach and do research at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, in Iran, where he is a physics professor. But throughout his career, the internal and international politics of his country have interfered with such plans >>> See

Sent by Mehran Azhar

* *

Who's your Iranian of the day? Send us photo