Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi

Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
محمد علی مجتهدی
Born (1908-09-23)September 23, 1908
Lahijan, Iran
Died July 1, 1997(1997-07-01) (aged 88)
Nice, France
Citizenship  Iran
 France
Nationality Iranian
Fields Professor
Institutions Alborz High School
Sharif University of Technology
Alma mater University of Lille
University of Paris
Known for Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi Gilani (23 September 1908 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran.

Founder of Sharif University of Technology (originally Aryamehr Technical University) and dean of Tehran Polytechnic University (currently renamed to Amirkabir University of Technology). Memoirs of Mohammad-Ali Modjtahedi (Persian) 2000 were published as part of Harvard University's Iranian Oral History Project, editor Habib Ladjevardi. ISBN 964-7359-10-1

Life

He was born in Lahijan, Guilan in the northern part of Iran. He started his elementary school at the age of seven at Haghighat school after which he came to Tehran to continue his education at the Daar-Ol-Moallemin-E-Markazi in 1925. He finished high school at Madrese-Motevasete in the eastern part of Tehran and received his high school diploma in 1931. In 1932, among 100 other prominent students, he was sent to France for higher education. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Université Lille Nord de France in 1935 and his doctorate at the Paris-Sorbonne University in 1938. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1938.[1]

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Lotfali Sooratgar
Principal of Alborz High School
1944-1979
Succeeded by
Hossein Khoshnevisan
Preceded by
None
Chancellor of Aryamehr Technical University
1965–1968
Succeeded by
Fazlollah Reza
Preceded by
Habib Nafisi
Chancellor of Tehran Polytechnic
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Succeeded by
Kayvan Najmabadi


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