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Tehran Times, Iran
Nov 11 2010
Mother of Iranian astronomy honored
Tehran Times Culture Desk
TEHRAN -- The 90th birth anniversary of the first Iranian female
astronomer and physics professor, Alenush Terian, was celebrated at
the Ararat Club in Tehran.
The ceremony was attended by some Iranian MPs and over 100 Armenian
people to pay tribute to Iranian mother of astrology and the
establisher of the solar observatory of the Institute of Geophysics at
the University of Tehran.
At the ceremony, the Tehran MP Hassan Ghafurifard made a short speech
about his acquaintance with Terian who was his professor at the
university. He said that she had visited her at the elderly house
once.
`She always said I have a daughter who named sun and the moon is my
son,' he added saying that it is his honor that he is the guest of
this celebration.
After that, the representative of northern Tehran Armenian inhabitants
in Majlis Yureg Vartan called Terian as one of luminaries which
Iranian Armenian is proud of her.
`The presence of luminaries like Terian is a witness to Armenian
accompaniment with Iranians all through the history,' he added.
The message of the Iranian Archbishop Sabuh Sarkisian on the occasion
of Terian's birth anniversary was read out at the ceremony as well.
Born in an Armenian family in 1920 in Tehran, Alenush Terian graduated
in 1947 from Tehran University Science Department and she began her
career in physics laboratories of the same university and was elected
as the chief of laboratory operations in the same year.
She graduated in 1856 in atmospheric physics from Sorbonne University.
She came back to Iran and she became an assistant professor in
thermodynamics physics at the University of Tehran.
She studied solar physics observatory for 4 months by a scholarship of
German government and finally became the first female professor of
physics in Iran on 1964.
In 1966 she became a member of the geophysics committee of Tehran
University and in 1969 finally was elected as the chief of the solar
physics studies in that university and began to work in the solar
observatory which she was one of its founders. She was retired on
1979.
Photo: Mother of Iranian astronomy Alenush Terian blows out the
candles on her birthday cake during a celebration at the Ararat Club
in Tehran on November 9, 2010. (Mehr/Majid Asgaripur)
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=230263
From: A. Papazian
Nov 11 2010
Mother of Iranian astronomy honored
Tehran Times Culture Desk
TEHRAN -- The 90th birth anniversary of the first Iranian female
astronomer and physics professor, Alenush Terian, was celebrated at
the Ararat Club in Tehran.
The ceremony was attended by some Iranian MPs and over 100 Armenian
people to pay tribute to Iranian mother of astrology and the
establisher of the solar observatory of the Institute of Geophysics at
the University of Tehran.
At the ceremony, the Tehran MP Hassan Ghafurifard made a short speech
about his acquaintance with Terian who was his professor at the
university. He said that she had visited her at the elderly house
once.
`She always said I have a daughter who named sun and the moon is my
son,' he added saying that it is his honor that he is the guest of
this celebration.
After that, the representative of northern Tehran Armenian inhabitants
in Majlis Yureg Vartan called Terian as one of luminaries which
Iranian Armenian is proud of her.
`The presence of luminaries like Terian is a witness to Armenian
accompaniment with Iranians all through the history,' he added.
The message of the Iranian Archbishop Sabuh Sarkisian on the occasion
of Terian's birth anniversary was read out at the ceremony as well.
Born in an Armenian family in 1920 in Tehran, Alenush Terian graduated
in 1947 from Tehran University Science Department and she began her
career in physics laboratories of the same university and was elected
as the chief of laboratory operations in the same year.
She graduated in 1856 in atmospheric physics from Sorbonne University.
She came back to Iran and she became an assistant professor in
thermodynamics physics at the University of Tehran.
She studied solar physics observatory for 4 months by a scholarship of
German government and finally became the first female professor of
physics in Iran on 1964.
In 1966 she became a member of the geophysics committee of Tehran
University and in 1969 finally was elected as the chief of the solar
physics studies in that university and began to work in the solar
observatory which she was one of its founders. She was retired on
1979.
Photo: Mother of Iranian astronomy Alenush Terian blows out the
candles on her birthday cake during a celebration at the Ararat Club
in Tehran on November 9, 2010. (Mehr/Majid Asgaripur)
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=230263
From: A. Papazian