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IRAN HONORS FIRST FEMALE ASTRONOMER ALENOUSH TERIAN
Armenian Weekly
Mon, Dec 20 2010
TEHRAN, Iran (PressTV)~WMore than 100 people gathered in Tehran to
celebrate the 90th birthday of Iran~Rs first female astronomer and
physics professor, Alenoush Terian.
Mother of Iranian astronomy Alenoush Terian blows out candles on her
90th birthday.
The Iranian-Armenian scientist was honored during a ceremony in the
Iranian capital city on Nov. 9.
Members of the Iranian Parliament and more than 100 Armenians paid
tribute to the Iranian scientist.
~SShe always said she had a daughter named sun and a son named moon,~T
said lawmaker Hassan Ghafourifard, Terian~Rs former student at Tehran
University.
A statement from the Primate of Armenian Diocese of Tehran Archbishop
Sebouh Sarkissian marking Terian~Rs birthday was also read out at
the ceremony.
Born in an Armenian family in 1920 in Tehran, Terian graduated in
physics from the University of Tehran in 1947. She began working in
physics laboratories of the same university upon graduation and was
elected as the chief of laboratory operations in the same year.
She continued her studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris,
graduating with a degree in atmospheric physics in 1956. She returned
to Iran to work as an assistant professor in thermodynamics at the
University of Tehran.
Terian got a scholarship to study solar physics for four months in
Germany, after which she became Iran~Rs first female physics professor
in 1964.
In 1966, Terian became a member of the geophysics committee of Tehran
University and was elected as the chief of the solar physics studies
three years later.
She was one of the founders of the solar observatory of the Institute
of Geophysics at the University of Tehran, where she also worked
until her retirement in 1979.
From: A. Papazian
Armenian Weekly
Mon, Dec 20 2010
TEHRAN, Iran (PressTV)~WMore than 100 people gathered in Tehran to
celebrate the 90th birthday of Iran~Rs first female astronomer and
physics professor, Alenoush Terian.
Mother of Iranian astronomy Alenoush Terian blows out candles on her
90th birthday.
The Iranian-Armenian scientist was honored during a ceremony in the
Iranian capital city on Nov. 9.
Members of the Iranian Parliament and more than 100 Armenians paid
tribute to the Iranian scientist.
~SShe always said she had a daughter named sun and a son named moon,~T
said lawmaker Hassan Ghafourifard, Terian~Rs former student at Tehran
University.
A statement from the Primate of Armenian Diocese of Tehran Archbishop
Sebouh Sarkissian marking Terian~Rs birthday was also read out at
the ceremony.
Born in an Armenian family in 1920 in Tehran, Terian graduated in
physics from the University of Tehran in 1947. She began working in
physics laboratories of the same university upon graduation and was
elected as the chief of laboratory operations in the same year.
She continued her studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris,
graduating with a degree in atmospheric physics in 1956. She returned
to Iran to work as an assistant professor in thermodynamics at the
University of Tehran.
Terian got a scholarship to study solar physics for four months in
Germany, after which she became Iran~Rs first female physics professor
in 1964.
In 1966, Terian became a member of the geophysics committee of Tehran
University and was elected as the chief of the solar physics studies
three years later.
She was one of the founders of the solar observatory of the Institute
of Geophysics at the University of Tehran, where she also worked
until her retirement in 1979.
From: A. Papazian