Alenoush Terian

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Alenoush Terian

Alenoush Terian (born November 9, 1920 in Tehran , Iran ; † March 4, 2011 there , Persian آلینوش طریان Alinush Teryan orآلینوش تریان, Armenian Ալենուշ Տէրեան Alenusch Derian ) was an Iranian physicist and astronomer. In Iran she is considered the mother of Iranian astronomy .

biography

Terian was born into an Armenian family. Her father was a poet and translator (under the pseudonym Arizad ). He translated the Shahnameh from Persian into Armenian.

In 1947 Terian completed her scientific studies at the University of Tehran and then worked in the university's physics laboratories under M. Hessabi. Her request for financial support for studying abroad was rejected by Hessabi. In an interview, he stated that she was too young to study so much as a woman . She financed her studies herself and received her doctorate in atmospheric physics from the Sorbonne in 1956 . She returned to Iran and became an assistant professor of thermodynamics at Tehran University. A few years later she received a German scholarship for a four-month study trip to solar observatories in what was then the Federal Republic. In 1964, Terian became the first female physics professor in Iran. In 1966 she was admitted to the geophysics committee of the University of Tehran and in 1969 elected head of the university's solar physics department. She was among the founders of Iran's first solar observatory. It was run by the University's Department of Geophysics, where Terian also taught. She retired in 1979.

Iranian parliamentarians and over 100 Iranian Armenians attended their 90th birthday celebration in the Ararat complex . Terian died in March 2011 in her native Tehran. After the funeral in the Tehran Church of the Holy Mother of God , she was buried in the Doulab cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC Persia, آلینوش طریان
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h M. Talebian, E. Talebian: Alenush Terian: The Iranian Solar Mother. Physics in Perspective, vol. 14, issue 2 (June 2012), 239–241, doi : 10.1007 / s00016-012-0085-x (limited preview)
  3. ↑ Interviews (Persian) ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Majid Asgaripur: Alenush Terian: Mother of Iranian astronomy honored. Tehran Times, November 11, 2010 ( text without pictures from Tehran Times ).
  5. ↑ The first Iranian physicist becomes her 90th birthday honored ( Memento of 13 November 2010 at the Internet Archive ) ( English )
  6. ↑ Alenoush Terian dies in Tehran
  7. ↑ آلنوش طریان ، نخستین زن فیزیک‌دان ایران و مادر ِ ستاره‌شناسی ایران . Tavaana, March 15, 2011 ( Photo: Alenusch Terian's coffin is being carried from St. Mary's Church ).
personal data
SURNAME Terian, Alenoush
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Astronomy, mother of the Iranian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian physicist and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2011
Place of death Tehran , Iran