Those Who Make us Feel Proud

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Those Who Make us Feel Proud

Dr. Jamshid (Jam) Ghajar

He is back in the media, under spotlight. In 1996he made a miracle and a big name after New Yorker magazine wrote a detailed story on him and his work. At same time Charlie Rose made an hour long interview with him.

When he talks, the medical world listens. Recently, Nova Science Now has made a report on him. Please read and watch all the links, they are very educational.

Children of Esfahan

The Polish Postal Service has commemorated the role Esfahan played during World War 2 in caring for Polish orphans.

For the 120-150,000 or so of those who were allowed to leave Soviet Russia in 1942, Iran was a long-awaited "Promised Land" of Freedom. My mother was one of those young exiles on the first transport to arrive in Anzali and even today, she still speaks of Iran in hallowed terms that seem almost messianic.
The debt and gratitude felt by the exiles towards their host country echoes loudly throughout all the literature. The kindness and sympathy of ordinary

Iranians towards the Poles is everywhere spoken of.

Only a small fraction of the Poles released from the camps, however, managed to reach Iran. Almost a million others were left behind in the Soviet Union to face their sorry fate.

For information on how to obtain the stamps, see: http://www.poczta-polska.pl/znaczki/en/index.php

- Mansour Kiani

Maryam Mirzakhani

She is a Harvard graduate, assistant professor at Princeton and at the age of 28 she was one of the ten most brilliant people in the US

Read more here and here

Pardis Sabeti

Combination of a scientist, artist and

rock singer make a genius

Born in Iran, a genetics professor at Harvard PARDIS C. SABETI, MD, PhD, was profiled Wednesday night on "NOVA Science Now."

Sabeti is lead singer & guitarist of THOUSAND DAYS-"ABSCENSE" with Bob Katsiaficis & Dana Goulet. Pardis C. Sabeti is also a Rhodes Scholar, M.D. Ph.D (Biological anthropologist), and Assistant Professor at Harvard University. (BROAD INSTITUTE-HARVARD & MIT) Pardis C. Sabeti is ranked as #49 among the top 100 living geniuses. She is working and studying how the genetics of human DNA populations have evolved to resist Malaria and Lassa fever using modern tools such as HapMap, Human Genome Project, DNA Sequencing, etc.

See "Nova Science Now" website about Pardis here

Glareh Zadeh,

Widely known as the Britain's most exceptional

and youngest female surgeon

See these sites: site 1,site 2

Minoo Akhtarzand

The Chairman and Director-General

of Swedish Railways

Read the story here

Nima Arkani-Hamed

His revolutionary ideas about the way the universe works will finally be put to the test this year at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, which will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

The accelerator, estimated to cost between $5 billion and $10 billion, could provide answers to questions physicists have had for decades. Thousands of scientists from around the world are collaborating on the project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN.

If the results confirm any of Arkani-Hamed's predictions, they would be the first extension of our notions of space-time since Albert Einstein. - CNN

Also see:

Harvard University Department of Physics

Wikipedia

Thanks to Nader Gilani

استاد احسان یارشاطر

اخیرا 35 سالگی دانشنامه ایرانیکا که به همت استاد یارشاطر و کمک های مالی عده ای ایرانیان نیک سرشت درحال تدوین است جشن گرفته شد. گزارش این بزرگداشت را در اینجا و عکس های آنرا در اینجا ببینید.

Firooz Naderi

"His wake-up call came when he was named to head NASA's Mars Exploration Program. A news release was sent to him for approval, with question marks asking whether he wanted to include the fact that he had been born in Iran.

"It hurts me to think I would not be self-confident enough to say I am an Iranian American," said Naderi." - Washington Post

Please, also see: NASA web page on Mr. Naderi

Iranian-American Alia Sabur

world's youngest professor

A Long Island whiz kid who left fourth grade to start college at SUNY Stony Brook has become the youngest college professor in history - at 18.

The Guinness Book of World Records is officially recognizing Alia Sabur, who on Feb. 19 was appointed a full-time faculty professor of cell science in the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea.

Sabur "just became the youngest professor in the history of the world, breaking a 300-year-old record," a Guinness spokesman said. He said Alia broke the record set in the year 1717 by 19-year-old professor Colin Maclaurin, a protégé of Isaac Newton. (New York Post)

Please see:

Alia Sbur TV interview of MSNBC

Alia Sabur official site

Alia Sabur Wikipedia

Thanks to Ray Sheikan

Dr. Bijan Vasigh

Because of my personal interest in tracing and learning about internationally recognized Iranian in the field of aviation and airline industry, I have had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Bijan Vasigh for a relatively long time. He is a professor of Economics and Finance at the Department of Aviation Business Administration at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida as well as Managing Director of the Aviation Consulting Group, LLC. He has several aviation related books, numerous articles, presentations, seminars and continuously make speeches at most industry conferences and conventions. e

As an Iranian, I always took pride in Dr. Vasigh's position in the aviation world, however, today when I saw the Newsweek interview with him in regard to one of historical issues of today's aviation, the Delta-Northwest merger and read his professional and insightful views, I even felt prouder of him. Please read his experts views in his Newsweek interview here.

Abbas Atrvash, April 19,2008