Dr. Mahmood Hesabi

Dr. Hessabi was born in Tehran. He spent 4 years of his childhood in Tehran. When he was seven, his family moved from Iran to Lobnan. He started his education with poverty and difficulty in the French Churchman School. At that time his mother was teaching him the literature and religion. At the age seventeen he obtained his Bachelor's in Art and science from the American University of Beirut . Later obtained his B.A in civil engineering while working as a draftsman. At the age 22 he started working in the electric locomotive maintenance department.

He was scientific mind and continued his research in physics and obtained his P.H.D in physics from Sorbonne University. Dr. Hessabi was good at playing the piano and violin. Mahmoud Hessabi was fluent in five living languages: Persian, French, English, German and Arabic. He was also familiar with Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Pahlavi, Avestan, Turkish and Italian, which he used for etymological studies. He not only knew the poems and traditional music of Iran but also knew the classical music of West very well. He memorized the Quran and the poem book of Hafez. He also succeeded in sport and got some degree in it. Finally he died in the Genev hospital at the age 90.

After his death, his house was changed to a museum. It was called Dr Hessabi Museum.

Accomplishments

From Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Hessaby)

According to the Dr Hessaby Institute, essentially an institution run by his son, the following were some of his accomplishments:

• Founding the Highway Engineering school and teaching there from 1928
• Survey and drawing of the first coastal road-map between Persian Gulf ports
• Founding the "teachers college" and teaching there from 1928
• Construction of the first radio-set in Iran (1928)
• Construction of the first weather-station in 1931
• Installation and operation of the first radiology center in Iran in 1931
• Calculation and setting of Iranian time (1932)
• Founding the first private hospital in Iran (Goharshad Hospital) in 1933
• Writing the University carechair and founding Tehran University (1934)
• Founding the Engineering school in 1934 and acting as the dean of that school until 1936 and teaching there from then on
• Founding the faculty of science and acting as its dean from 1942 to 1948
• Commissioned for the dispossession of British Petroleum Company during the government of Dr Mossadegh and appointed as the first general manager of the National Iranian Oil Company
• Minister of Education in the cabinet of Dr Mossadegh from 1951 to 1952
• Opposing the contract with the consortium while in the Senate of Iran in 1954
• Opposing the membership of Iran in CENTO
• Founding the Telecommunication Center of Assad-Abad in Hamedan (1959)
• Writing the standards charter for the standards Institute of Iran (1954)
• Founding the Geophysical Institute of Tehran University (1961)
• Title of distinguished professor of Tehran University from 1971
• Founding the atomic research center and atomic reactor at Tehran University
• Founding the atomic Energy center of Iran, member of the UN scientific sub-committee of peaceful use of member of the international space committee (1981)
• Establishment of Iran's space research committee and member of the international space committee (1981)
• Establishment of the Iranian music society and founding the Persian language Academy