MAHMOUD HESSABY

(1903-1992)

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Mahmoud Hessaby was born in 1903 in Tafresh, Iran. At the age of 25 he received a PhD in Physics.

He then went to Princeton, U.S.A. to work on his theory about infinitely extended particles. During the course of his research, he had meetings with well-known scientists such as Schrodinger, Born, Fermi, Dirac, Bohr and Einstein.  Hessaby also successfully modified Newton’s law of gravity and Columbus’ law.

In 1973, he received the medal of "Commandeur de la Legion", France’s greatest scientific medal. He was also a senior member of the New York Academy of Science. He knew more than ten different languages, such as Persian, English, French, Arabic, German, Italian and Greek.  

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