Reza Mansouri
Reza Mansouri (born January 8, 1948 in Tehran ) is an Iranian physicist .
Mansouri received his doctorate under Roman Sexl at the University of Vienna in 1972 and was assistant professor there for five years. He is a professor at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
He was also visiting professor at McGill University and he also taught at the University of Potsdam and the University of Cologne.
He is mainly concerned with the theory of gravitation and astrophysics . With Sexl he developed test theories of the special theory of relativity .
From 2001 to 2005 he was Deputy Minister of Science in Iran and was largely responsible for Iran's participation in international collaborations in physics, for example at SESAME (Synchrotron) and the LHC . In Tehran he is one of the founders of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) and heads its school for astronomy. He was also significantly involved in the planning of the national observatory on Mount Gargash (with the 3.4 m reflector telescope INO 340).
Along with Farhad Ardalan and Mehdi Golshani (* 1939), he is one of the leading theoretical physicists in Iran.
Mansouri received the Abdus Salam Prize in 1989 and he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.
He was president of the Physical Society of Iran.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mansouri, Sexl, A test theory of special relativity, parts 1 to 3, General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 8, 1977, pp. 497-513, 515-524, 809-814
- ↑ Short biography, ICRANet
- ↑ INO 340
- ↑ Parviz Tarikhi, The Iranian Space Endeavor: Ambitions and Reality, Springer 2015, p. 50
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mansouri, Reza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |