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Famous Iranian Scientists
21-May-2009
There are alot more Persian / Iranian notables that are not listed below but this will suffice as a start.
After a dormant period Iran's scientific brain power has flourished and we will hear of these great young scientists in Iran in the years to come. Our young women and men are renowned for their mastery of various fields of science and their yearly medals in various Olympics is a testamant to what they can achieve. They are also the reason why Iran is able to achieve so much in various fields in the last 20 years.
Just remeber that all modern key sciences such as medicine, algebra, astronomy and chemistry go back to Iranian / Muslim scientists.
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Mashallah ibn Athari
Name: Mashallah ibn Athari
Birth Date: 740 AD
Death Date: 815 AD
Birth Place: Khorasan (Iran)
Death Place: Basrah (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Engineer [Jewish designer of the city of Baghdad who designed it after Firuzabad (Ardeshir Khoreh) of Pars]
Most Important Book: The 27th (De Scientia Motus Orbis)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abu Mousa kharazmi, Father of the Modern Mathematics
Name: Abu Mousa Kharazmi
Birth Date: 780 AD
Death Date: 850 AD
Birth Place: Kharazm (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Father of the Modern Mathematics (Algorithm, Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra), Antithesist, Geographer, Cartographer, Astronomer
Most Important Book: (1) Al Makhrutat, (2) Al Ketab al Mokhtasar fi Hesab al Jabr val Muqabalah (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abol Ma'shar Balkhi
Name: Abol Ma'shar Balkhi
Birth Date: 787 AD
Death Date: 886 AD
Birth Place: Balkh (Afghanistan)
Death Place: Al Wasit (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher
Most Important Book: Esbate Elme Nojum (The Scientific Proof of Astronomy as a Science)
Historical Period: Abbasid, Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Ja’far Mohammad ibn Mousa
Name: Abu Ja’far Mohammad ibn Mousa
Birth Date: ?
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Inventor (Valve, Float Valve, Gas Mask, Mechanical Puzzle, Fail Safe Device, Mechanical Grab Device, Mechanical Feedback Controller), Astronomer, Mathematician (Geometry), Physicist, Engineer (The best engineer amongst the 3 brothers)
Most Important Book: Ketab al Hiyal (Book of Ingenious Devices)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Ahmad ibn Mousa
Name: Ahmad ibn Mousa
Birth Date: 803 AD
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Inventor (Hurricane Lamp, Self Feeding Lamp, Self-Trimming Lamp), Engineer, Mathematician
Most Important Book: On Mechanics
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Hassan ibn Mousa
Name: Hassan ibn Mousa
Birth Date: 810 AD
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Geometry), Engineer
Most Important Book: The Elongated Circular Figure
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abolqasem ibn Khordadbeh
Name: Abolqasem ibn Khordadbeh
Birth Date: 820 AD
Death Date: 912 AD
Birth Place: ? (Iran)
Death Place: ?
Type of Scientist: Geographer
Most Important Book: Ketab al Masalek val Mamalek (Book of Religions and Nations)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Mohammad Zakariya Razi
Name: Mohammad Zakariya Razi
Birth Date: 864 AD
Death Date: 930 AD
Birth Place: Ray (Iran)
Death Place: Ray (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of the Chemistry (Discovered Ethanol), Physician (Neurosurgery Pioneer, Discovered Allergies and Described, Smallpox, Measles, Asthma), Astronomer, Philosopher (Rationalist)
Most Important Book: (1) Teb-e Mansouri (The Mansouri Medicine), (2) Al Hawi al Kabir (The Large Comprehensive Medical Encyclopedia)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Nasr Farabi
Name: Abu Nasr Farabi
Birth Date: 870 AD
Death Date: 950 AD
Birth Place: Farab (Kazakhstan)
Death Place: Damascus (Syria)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Composer, Sociologist
Most Important Book: Musiqi al Ketr
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abdol Rahman Sufi (Azophi)
Name: Abdol Rahman Sufi (Azophi)
Birth Date: 903 AD
Death Date: 986 AD
Birth Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Death Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer
Most Important Book: Ketab al Kavakab al Sabetah (The Book of Fixed Stars)
Historical Period: Buyyid (Daylamite) Dynasty
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Abol Vafa Mohammad Buzjani
Name: Abol Vafa Mohammad Buzjani
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 998 AD
Birth Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Death Place: ? (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Established Trigonometric Identities), Astronomer
Most Important Book: ?
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Mahmoud Khojandi
Name: Abu Mahmoud Khojandi
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 1000 AD
Birth Place: Khojand (Tajikistan)
Death Place: Khojand (Tajikistan)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer (Built Ray Observatory, Built the First Massive Astronomical Mural Sextant, Accurate Calculation of Axial Tilt), Mathematician
Most Important Book: Computation of the Axial Tilt
Historical Period: Buyyid (Daylamite) Dynasty
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Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Name: Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 1021 AD
Birth Place: Tus (Iran)
Death Place: Tus (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Reviver of the Persian Language (Wrote Shahnameh in Pure Persian Language), Poet, Linguist, Researcher, Author
Most Important Book: Shahnameh (Book of Kings)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynsaty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Nasr Mansour
Name: Abu Nasr Mansour
Birth Date: 960 AD
Death Date: 1036 AD
Birth Place: Gilan (Iran)
Death Place: Qazneh (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Discovered the Sine Law in Trigonometry), Astronomer
Most Important Book: Al Mosalasat (Trigonometry)
Historical Period: Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Rayhan Biruni
Name: Abu Rayhan Biruni
Birth Date: 973 AD
Death Date: 1048 AD
Birth Place: Kharazm (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Qazneh (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: Father of Anthropology, Astronomer (Discovered that Earth is round, turns around its axis daily and around the Sun annually), Mathematician (Arithmetic), Physicist (Defined the Experimental Scientific Method), Psychologist (Experimental), Chemist, Encyclopedist, Geographer, Philosopher,
Most Important Book: Qanun-e Mas'oudi (The Laws of Astronomy, Geography and Engineering)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna)
Name: Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna)
Birth Date: 981 AD
Death Date: 1037 AD
Birth Place: Bukhara (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Hamedan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of Modern Medicine, Physician, Chemist, Physicist, Natural Scientist, Astronomer, Philosopher (Father of Avicennism)
Most Important Book: (1) Al Qanun fil Teb (The Law of Medicine), (2) Daneshnameh Alai (Book of Scientific Knowledge)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Omar Khayyam
Name: Omar Khayyam
Birth Date: 1048 AD
Death Date: 1131 AD
Birth Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Death Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of Algebra, Mathematician, Astronomer (Calendar Reform), Poet (Legendary world famous poet)
Most Important Book: Rubaiyat (Quatrains)
Historical Period: Seljuqid
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Abu Hamed Mohammad Qazali
Name: Abu Hamed Mohammad Qazali
Birth Date: 1058 AD
Death Date: 1111 AD
Birth Place: Tus (Iran)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Philosopher, Psychologist, Mystic (Grand Sufi and Pioneer in Doubt and Skepticism Methods), Argumentation and Logic Expert, Sociologist
Most Important Book: Ehya al Olum
Historical Period: Seljuqid
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Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi
Name: Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi
Birth Date: 1201 AD
Death Date: 1274 AD
Birth Place: Tus (Iran)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Defined the Sine Formula for plane triangles), Astronomer, Biologist, Chemist, Physician, Philosopher
Most Important Book: Akhlaq-e Naseri (Ethics),
Historical Period: Kharazm-Shahid Dynasty, IL Khanat
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Rashid al Din Hamadani
Name: Rashid al Din Hamadani
Birth Date: 1247 AD
Death Date: 1318 AD
Birth Place: Hamedan (Iran)
Death Place: ?
Type of Scientist: Physician, Historian (Documentation of the IL Khanat Mongol History)
Most Important Book: Jame’ol Tavarikh
Historical Period: IL Khanat
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Kamal al Din Mohammad Farsi
Name: Kamal al Din Mohammad Farsi
Birth Date: 1267 AD
Death Date: 1320 AD
Birth Place: Tabriz (Iran)
Death Place: ?
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Mathematical Explanation of the Rainbow in Optics and Contributions in Number Theory), Astronomer
Most Important Book: ?
Historical Period: IL Khanat
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Jamshid Kashani
Name: Jamshid Kashani
Birth Date: 1380 AD
Death Date: 1429 AD
Birth Place: Kashan (Iran)
Death Place: Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Mathematician (Law of Cosines AKA Theorem of Al Kashi)
Most Important Book: Resalat al Watar val Jaib (The Treatise on the Chord and Sine)
Historical Period: Timurid
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Abdol Rahman Jami
Name: Abdol Rahman Jami
Birth Date: 1396 AD
Death Date: 1477 AD
Birth Place: Jam (Afghanistan)
Death Place: Herart (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: General Scientist, Poet
Most Important Book: Baharestan, Haft Awrang (7 Thrones)
Historical Period: Timurid
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Sheikh Bahai Ameli
Name: Sheikh Bahai Ameli
Birth Date: 1532 AD
Death Date: 1610 AD
Birth Place: Ba'albak (Lebanon)
Death Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet
Most Important Book: Jame' Abbasi
Historical Period: Safavid Dynasty
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Mohammad Hashem Alavi Shirazi
Name: Mohammad Hashem Alavi Shirazi
Birth Date: 1670 AD
Death Date: 1747 AD
Birth Place: Shiraz (Iran)
Death Place: Delhi (India)
Type of Scientist: Physician, Pharmacist
Most Important Book: Jame’ al Javami Mohammad Shahi (On Pharmaceutical Remedies)
Historical Period: Afsharid Dynasty
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Allameh Dehkhoda
Name: Allameh Dehkhoda
Birth Date: 1876 AD
Death Date: 1954 AD
Birth Place: Tehran (Iran)
Death Place: Tehran (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Researcher, Terminologist, Linguist, Author
Most Important Book: Loqatnameh Dehkhoda (Dictionary of Dehkhoda)
Historical Period: Qajar Dynasty, Pahlavi Dynasty
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Professor Mahmoud Hesabi
Name: Professor Mahmoud Hesabi
Birth Date: 1903 AD
Death Date: 1992 AD
Birth Place: Tehran (Iran)
Death Place: Geneva (Switzerland)
Type of Scientist: Physicist (Father of the Iranian Physics, Founder of the Atomic Energy Center of Iran, Establishment of Iran's Space Research Committee and much more), Electrical Engineer, Mathematician
Most Important Book: Sensitive Photo-electric Cells
Historical Period: Qajar Dynasty, Pahlavi Dynasty, IRI
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Professor Mohsen Hashtrudi
Name: Professor Mohsen Hashtrudi
Birth Date: 1907 AD
Death Date: 1976 AD
Birth Place: Tabriz (Iran)
Death Place: Tehran (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician, Art Scientist, Poet
Most Important Book: Knowledge and Art
Historical Period: Qajar Dynasty, Pahlavi Dynasty
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Dr. Mohammad Moin
Name: Dr. Mohammad Moin
Birth Date: 1914 AD
Death Date: 1971 AD
Birth Place: Rasht (Iran)
Death Place: Tehran (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Philosopher, Persian Literature Researcher, Linguist, Iranologist, Author
Most Important Book: Moin Persian Dictionary
Historical Period: Qajar Dynasty, Pahlavi Dynasty
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Dr. Kourosh Aryamanesh
Name: Dr. Kourosh Aryamanesh
Birth Date: 1934 AD
Death Date: 1996 AD
Birth Place: Mashhad (Iran)
Death Place: Paris (France)
Type of Scientist: Reviver of the Persian Culture, Historian, Linguist, Forensic Scientist, Criminologist, Researcher, Author
Most Important Book: (1) Na Agahi va Pusidegi (Uninformity and Rot), (2) Ctesiphone in Smoke, Fire and Blood
Historical Period: Pahlavi Dynasty, IRI
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wonderful list
by sirazie (not verified) on Fri May 22, 2009 08:37 PM PDTamazing list. what is so interesting the period of 720 to 880 produce so many mathematicians.
Not to start an over nationalistic discussion, Iran was ruled by Abbasid caliphate whom resided in Baghdad. This was the renaissance period of Islamic Empire.
Compare this list with other mathematicians of the same era in Egypt and Morocco. My Guess is you will find a very impressive list also.
we need a 2nd era of openness in Mideast.
//www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abba/hd_abba.htm
dear smhb,
by Jaleho on Fri May 22, 2009 02:35 PM PDTwell put. Concise and to the point!
Thanks again.
Jaleho
by smhb on Fri May 22, 2009 02:33 PM PDTThe worst disease of colonization of a society is their loss of identity and the fact that those who are truely lost have a major inferiority complex in front of the westerners.
Typical disease found amongst many Iranians.
Deepak
by smhb on Fri May 22, 2009 12:50 PM PDTFirst of all we dont have to prove that we are smart. Historical, scientific and cultural data proves that. Not all Iranians are smart or great as is the case in all cultures. I think you miss the point and if this post is an indication of narcisim then so be it.
However I do suggest that you look at it in the context of exchanging information and providing usefull data about achievements. If one does not know where they come from they certainly wont be able to map a successfull path to the future. Thats specially true of our youth in this country who are bombarded by negative and anti Iranian and anti Muslim propaganda and disinformation.
Why are Iranians always
by Deepak (not verified) on Fri May 22, 2009 10:58 AM PDTWhy are Iranians always looking to prove that they are smart? If u r smart, everybody will naturally recognize u! Narcissism isn't the solution!
Thank you.
by Mohammad Ala on Fri May 22, 2009 10:06 AM PDTThank you for this post. I will share it with our members.
We should admire our great people and honor them while they are alive.
Thanks smhb, the new genration IS PROUD
by Jaleho on Fri May 22, 2009 08:40 AM PDTUnlike so many Iranian gharbzadeh that you see here; the ones who are ashamed of their own ancestors, religion, dress, culture, democracy, independence, and even their scientific achievements, the young people in Iran are a pleasure to look and talk to!
Iranians who are children of "cyrus" rather than their own Muslim parents and grand parents, those in whose brains the orientalist point of view is nailed so hard that they ashemed for who they have been for a good 1400 years, those who are scared of not being percieved as "western and modern," are really a dying generation. The new Iranian youth holds its head high, and does not feel obliged to conform to one kind of western culture or the other to feel its self-worth.
Thanks for the reminder. Although there are many in the present generation to be added to this list of Muslim scholars who have been the pillar of western enlightenment, I'll just add two quick recet names that are on top of my head. Ali Javan who invented the gas laser, and Cumran Vafa who recently was elected as part of Obama's science team. The great team in Deneshgah Sanati and amir kabir doing a lot of engineering and physics research are some of the best known names in the US too! Let's just call them the great team enabling Iran's recent scientific achievements; the ones that self-disrespecting Iranians call "copiers," and when they are in the west they call them "great" scientists ;-)
The Persians/ Iranians
by Abdy (not verified) on Fri May 22, 2009 04:49 AM PDTHow wonderful to see people like "smhb" caring so much to prepare and provide this info for others. I for myself would like to thank him and admire him/her for his/her love for Iran and what the world can be told about this great nation with an even greater culture. We are unique and we should be proud of our past. Have no doubt, Persians/Iranians would show again to the world what civilization and love is.
Great job "smhb".
That parstimes.com has some good info
by Anahid Hojjati on Thu May 21, 2009 09:30 PM PDTparstimes.com has many pages of valuable information on topics such as Iranian artists, Iranian movies, scientists, etc. Sometimes it also posts pictures and videos of famous Iranians when they have a lecture or there is a round table discussion. Recently I saw a video of a speech by "Farrokh Negahdar" that was posted on parstimes.com.
parstimes.com
by hossein.hosseini on Thu May 21, 2009 05:58 PM PDTThis website has a page that I know has so far the most comprehensive list of Iranians //www.parstimes.com/Iranians.html