Mahmoud Hessabi was an Iranian scientist, researcher and professor of University of Tehran. During the congress on 60 years of physics in Iran the services rendered by him were deeply appreciated and he was called the father of modern physics in Iran.
Hessabi was born in Tehran to Abbas and Goharshad Hessaby. When he was seven, the family moved from Iran to Beirut in Lebanon where he attended school.
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