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Mahmoud Hessabi was an Iranian nuclear physicist and senator.
Doctor HESABI was the first chairman and managing director of Iranian national oil company.

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ḤESĀBI, MAḤMUD

ḤESĀBI, MAḤMUD, contemporary Persian physicist, Senator, and minister of education (b. Tehran, 1321/1903, d. Geneva, 12 Šahrivar 1371 Š./3 September 1992; Figure 1). He was born to ʿAbbās Ḥesābi, a Qajar government official from Tafreš. Ḥesābi received his primary and secondary education in French and American Schools in Beirut, 1910-19. He completed his degree in road engineering in 1922 from the American University of Beirut and subsequently worked for the road ministry in Beirut. In 1923 he moved to Paris and obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the École Supérieure d’Électricité in 1925. He then worked as an electrical engineer in the Paris railway system. In the meantime, he continued his studies in physics at Paris University, Sorbonne under the noted physicist Aimé Cotton and obtained his doctorate in 1927. His dissertation was on Sensibilité des cellules photoélectriques (see Iran Who’s Who 1976, 3rd ed., Tehran, 1976, p. 213; Ḥesābi, 2000, p

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Iranian Personalities

Professor Mahmoud Hessaby

Professor Mahmoud Hessaby, Born in Tehran in 1903, was educated in Beirut. His family hailed from Tafresh, a Central Iranian city, had moved to the Lebanese capital in 1907. They were in a poor financial situation. He received religious instructions and learnt Persian literature from his devoted and learned mother. He memorized the Holly Quoran by heart, developing a strong belief in it. He also read the great poetty of Hafez, Sa'adi, Ferdowsi, Molavi, etc.

His Studies in high school coincided with the commencement of the First World War, and therefore the French schools, including the one in which he was studying, had to closed down.

After two years, he went to the American College of Beirut, graduating with a bachelor's degree of Art and Science at the age of seventeen. He obtainded his biology degree at the age of nineteen, and then continued his studies in Civil Engineering. He then studied Medical Science, Mathematics and Astronomy. As a graduate of the Engineering School in

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Mahmoud Hessabi

Iranian nuclear physicist (1903–1992)

Mahmoud Hessabi (or Hessaby, Persian: محمود حسابی, 23 February 1903 – 3 September 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

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