Mohsen Mostafavi
Mohsen Mostafavi,born in Iran, an architect and educator, is the Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was formerly the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College [...]
Ahmad Karimi Hakkak
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (Persian: احمد کریمی حکاک) is a Persian literary figure and Iranist. Ahmad Karimi Hakkak was Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Washington for nineteen years. He is currently a [...]
Mehran Kardar
Mehran Kardar is a prominent Iranian born physicist, full Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his B.A. in Cambridge University, and gained [...]
Sepandar David Kamvar
Sepandar David Kamvar, also known as Sep Kamvar, is a Persian American computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. He is a consulting assistant professor of computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University [...]
Vartan C. Gregorian
Vartan C. Gregorian (Persian: وارتان گرگوریان, born April 8, 1934) is an Iranian academic, serving as the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. After receiving his dual Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford [...]
Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta (Born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian scientist who has notably contributed to the field of periodic, artificial materials. He received his B.S. degree with high honors in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of [...]
Raymond Vahan Damadian
Raymond Vahan Damadian (born March 16, 1936, NY USA) is an Iranian-American practitioner and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine — one of the most useful diagnostic tools of our time. His [...]
Iranians Invented Qanat!
________________________________ Qanat , subterranean aqueducts. [...]
Discovery of Trigonometry!
________________________________ Numerous Iranians were directly responsible for the establishment of Algebra, the advancement of Medicine and Chemistry, and the discovery of Trigonometry. [...]
Rumi’s Poetry!
________________________________ (1207 AD – 1273 AD) – Rumi writes poetry and in 1997, the translations were best-sellers in the United States. [...]
