Famous Iranian Scientists
There are alot more Persian / Iranian notables that are not listed below but this will suffice as a start.
After a dormant period Iran's scientific brain power has flourished and we will hear of these great young scientists in Iran in the years to come. Our young women and men are renowned for their mastery of various fields of science and their yearly medals in various Olympics is a testamant to what they can achieve. They are also the reason why Iran is able to achieve so much in various fields in the last 20 years.
Just remeber that all modern key sciences such as medicine, algebra, astronomy and chemistry go back to Iranian / Muslim scientists.
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Mashallah ibn Athari
Name: Mashallah ibn Athari
Birth Date: 740 AD
Death Date: 815 AD
Birth Place: Khorasan (Iran)
Death Place: Basrah (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Engineer [Jewish designer of the city of Baghdad who designed it after Firuzabad (Ardeshir Khoreh) of Pars]
Most Important Book: The 27th (De Scientia Motus Orbis)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abu Mousa kharazmi, Father of the Modern Mathematics
Name: Abu Mousa Kharazmi
Birth Date: 780 AD
Death Date: 850 AD
Birth Place: Kharazm (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Father of the Modern Mathematics (Algorithm, Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra), Antithesist, Geographer, Cartographer, Astronomer
Most Important Book: (1) Al Makhrutat, (2) Al Ketab al Mokhtasar fi Hesab al Jabr val Muqabalah (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abol Ma'shar Balkhi
Name: Abol Ma'shar Balkhi
Birth Date: 787 AD
Death Date: 886 AD
Birth Place: Balkh (Afghanistan)
Death Place: Al Wasit (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher
Most Important Book: Esbate Elme Nojum (The Scientific Proof of Astronomy as a Science)
Historical Period: Abbasid, Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Ja’far Mohammad ibn Mousa
Name: Abu Ja’far Mohammad ibn Mousa
Birth Date: ?
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Inventor (Valve, Float Valve, Gas Mask, Mechanical Puzzle, Fail Safe Device, Mechanical Grab Device, Mechanical Feedback Controller), Astronomer, Mathematician (Geometry), Physicist, Engineer (The best engineer amongst the 3 brothers)
Most Important Book: Ketab al Hiyal (Book of Ingenious Devices)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Ahmad ibn Mousa
Name: Ahmad ibn Mousa
Birth Date: 803 AD
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Inventor (Hurricane Lamp, Self Feeding Lamp, Self-Trimming Lamp), Engineer, Mathematician
Most Important Book: On Mechanics
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Hassan ibn Mousa
Name: Hassan ibn Mousa
Birth Date: 810 AD
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Geometry), Engineer
Most Important Book: The Elongated Circular Figure
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abolqasem ibn Khordadbeh
Name: Abolqasem ibn Khordadbeh
Birth Date: 820 AD
Death Date: 912 AD
Birth Place: ? (Iran)
Death Place: ?
Type of Scientist: Geographer
Most Important Book: Ketab al Masalek val Mamalek (Book of Religions and Nations)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Mohammad Zakariya Razi
Name: Mohammad Zakariya Razi
Birth Date: 864 AD
Death Date: 930 AD
Birth Place: Ray (Iran)
Death Place: Ray (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of the Chemistry (Discovered Ethanol), Physician (Neurosurgery Pioneer, Discovered Allergies and Described, Smallpox, Measles, Asthma), Astronomer, Philosopher (Rationalist)
Most Important Book: (1) Teb-e Mansouri (The Mansouri Medicine), (2) Al Hawi al Kabir (The Large Comprehensive Medical Encyclopedia)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Nasr Farabi
Name: Abu Nasr Farabi
Birth Date: 870 AD
Death Date: 950 AD
Birth Place: Farab (Kazakhstan)
Death Place: Damascus (Syria)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Composer, Sociologist
Most Important Book: Musiqi al Ketr
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abdol Rahman Sufi (Azophi)
Name: Abdol Rahman Sufi (Azophi)
Birth Date: 903 AD
Death Date: 986 AD
Birth Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Death Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer
Most Important Book: Ketab al Kavakab al Sabetah (The Book of Fixed Stars)
Historical Period: Buyyid (Daylamite) Dynasty
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Abol Vafa Mohammad Buzjani
Name: Abol Vafa Mohammad Buzjani
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 998 AD
Birth Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Death Place: ? (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Established Trigonometric Identities), Astronomer
Most Important Book: ?
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Mahmoud Khojandi
Name: Abu Mahmoud Khojandi
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 1000 AD
Birth Place: Khojand (Tajikistan)
Death Place: Khojand (Tajikistan)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer (Built Ray Observatory, Built the First Massive Astronomical Mural Sextant, Accurate Calculation of Axial Tilt), Mathematician
Most Important Book: Computation of the Axial Tilt
Historical Period: Buyyid (Daylamite) Dynasty
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Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Name: Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 1021 AD
Birth Place: Tus (Iran)
Death Place: Tus (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Reviver of the Persian Language (Wrote Shahnameh in Pure Persian Language), Poet, Linguist, Researcher, Author
Most Important Book: Shahnameh (Book of Kings)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynsaty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Nasr Mansour
Name: Abu Nasr Mansour
Birth Date: 960 AD
Death Date: 1036 AD
Birth Place: Gilan (Iran)
Death Place: Qazneh (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Discovered the Sine Law in Trigonometry), Astronomer
Most Important Book: Al Mosalasat (Trigonometry)
Historical Period: Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Rayhan Biruni
Name: Abu Rayhan Biruni
Birth Date: 973 AD
Death Date: 1048 AD
Birth Place: Kharazm (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Qazneh (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: Father of Anthropology, Astronomer (Discovered that Earth is round, turns around its axis daily and around the Sun annually), Mathematician (Arithmetic), Physicist (Defined the Experimental Scientific Method), Psychologist (Experimental), Chemist, Encyclopedist, Geographer, Philosopher,
Most Important Book: Qanun-e Mas'oudi (The Laws of Astronomy, Geography and Engineering)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna)
Name: Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna)
Birth Date: 981 AD
Death Date: 1037 AD
Birth Place: Bukhara (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Hamedan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of Modern Medicine, Physician, Chemist, Physicist, Natural Scientist, Astronomer, Philosopher (Father of Avicennism)
Most Important Book: (1) Al Qanun fil Teb (The Law of Medicine), (2) Daneshnameh Alai (Book of Scientific Knowledge)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Omar Khayyam
Name: Omar Khayyam
Birth Date: 1048 AD
Death Date: 1131 AD
Birth Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Death Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of Algebra, Mathematician, Astronomer (Calendar Reform), Poet (Legendary world famous poet)
Most Important Book: Rubaiyat (Quatrains)
Historical Period: Seljuqid
After a dormant period Iran's scientific brain power has flourished and we will hear of these great young scientists in Iran in the years to come. Our young women and men are renowned for their mastery of various fields of science and their yearly medals in various Olympics is a testamant to what they can achieve. They are also the reason why Iran is able to achieve so much in various fields in the last 20 years.
Just remeber that all modern key sciences such as medicine, algebra, astronomy and chemistry go back to Iranian / Muslim scientists.
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Mashallah ibn Athari
Name: Mashallah ibn Athari
Birth Date: 740 AD
Death Date: 815 AD
Birth Place: Khorasan (Iran)
Death Place: Basrah (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Engineer [Jewish designer of the city of Baghdad who designed it after Firuzabad (Ardeshir Khoreh) of Pars]
Most Important Book: The 27th (De Scientia Motus Orbis)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abu Mousa kharazmi, Father of the Modern Mathematics
Name: Abu Mousa Kharazmi
Birth Date: 780 AD
Death Date: 850 AD
Birth Place: Kharazm (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Father of the Modern Mathematics (Algorithm, Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra), Antithesist, Geographer, Cartographer, Astronomer
Most Important Book: (1) Al Makhrutat, (2) Al Ketab al Mokhtasar fi Hesab al Jabr val Muqabalah (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abol Ma'shar Balkhi
Name: Abol Ma'shar Balkhi
Birth Date: 787 AD
Death Date: 886 AD
Birth Place: Balkh (Afghanistan)
Death Place: Al Wasit (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher
Most Important Book: Esbate Elme Nojum (The Scientific Proof of Astronomy as a Science)
Historical Period: Abbasid, Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Ja’far Mohammad ibn Mousa
Name: Abu Ja’far Mohammad ibn Mousa
Birth Date: ?
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Inventor (Valve, Float Valve, Gas Mask, Mechanical Puzzle, Fail Safe Device, Mechanical Grab Device, Mechanical Feedback Controller), Astronomer, Mathematician (Geometry), Physicist, Engineer (The best engineer amongst the 3 brothers)
Most Important Book: Ketab al Hiyal (Book of Ingenious Devices)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Ahmad ibn Mousa
Name: Ahmad ibn Mousa
Birth Date: 803 AD
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Inventor (Hurricane Lamp, Self Feeding Lamp, Self-Trimming Lamp), Engineer, Mathematician
Most Important Book: On Mechanics
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Hassan ibn Mousa
Name: Hassan ibn Mousa
Birth Date: 810 AD
Death Date: 873 AD
Birth Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Death Place: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Geometry), Engineer
Most Important Book: The Elongated Circular Figure
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Abolqasem ibn Khordadbeh
Name: Abolqasem ibn Khordadbeh
Birth Date: 820 AD
Death Date: 912 AD
Birth Place: ? (Iran)
Death Place: ?
Type of Scientist: Geographer
Most Important Book: Ketab al Masalek val Mamalek (Book of Religions and Nations)
Historical Period: Abbasid
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Mohammad Zakariya Razi
Name: Mohammad Zakariya Razi
Birth Date: 864 AD
Death Date: 930 AD
Birth Place: Ray (Iran)
Death Place: Ray (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of the Chemistry (Discovered Ethanol), Physician (Neurosurgery Pioneer, Discovered Allergies and Described, Smallpox, Measles, Asthma), Astronomer, Philosopher (Rationalist)
Most Important Book: (1) Teb-e Mansouri (The Mansouri Medicine), (2) Al Hawi al Kabir (The Large Comprehensive Medical Encyclopedia)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Nasr Farabi
Name: Abu Nasr Farabi
Birth Date: 870 AD
Death Date: 950 AD
Birth Place: Farab (Kazakhstan)
Death Place: Damascus (Syria)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Composer, Sociologist
Most Important Book: Musiqi al Ketr
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abdol Rahman Sufi (Azophi)
Name: Abdol Rahman Sufi (Azophi)
Birth Date: 903 AD
Death Date: 986 AD
Birth Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Death Place: Esfahan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer
Most Important Book: Ketab al Kavakab al Sabetah (The Book of Fixed Stars)
Historical Period: Buyyid (Daylamite) Dynasty
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Abol Vafa Mohammad Buzjani
Name: Abol Vafa Mohammad Buzjani
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 998 AD
Birth Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Death Place: ? (Iraq)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Established Trigonometric Identities), Astronomer
Most Important Book: ?
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty
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Abu Mahmoud Khojandi
Name: Abu Mahmoud Khojandi
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 1000 AD
Birth Place: Khojand (Tajikistan)
Death Place: Khojand (Tajikistan)
Type of Scientist: Astronomer (Built Ray Observatory, Built the First Massive Astronomical Mural Sextant, Accurate Calculation of Axial Tilt), Mathematician
Most Important Book: Computation of the Axial Tilt
Historical Period: Buyyid (Daylamite) Dynasty
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Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Name: Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Birth Date: 940 AD
Death Date: 1021 AD
Birth Place: Tus (Iran)
Death Place: Tus (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Reviver of the Persian Language (Wrote Shahnameh in Pure Persian Language), Poet, Linguist, Researcher, Author
Most Important Book: Shahnameh (Book of Kings)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynsaty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Nasr Mansour
Name: Abu Nasr Mansour
Birth Date: 960 AD
Death Date: 1036 AD
Birth Place: Gilan (Iran)
Death Place: Qazneh (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: Mathematician (Discovered the Sine Law in Trigonometry), Astronomer
Most Important Book: Al Mosalasat (Trigonometry)
Historical Period: Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Rayhan Biruni
Name: Abu Rayhan Biruni
Birth Date: 973 AD
Death Date: 1048 AD
Birth Place: Kharazm (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Qazneh (Afghanistan)
Type of Scientist: Father of Anthropology, Astronomer (Discovered that Earth is round, turns around its axis daily and around the Sun annually), Mathematician (Arithmetic), Physicist (Defined the Experimental Scientific Method), Psychologist (Experimental), Chemist, Encyclopedist, Geographer, Philosopher,
Most Important Book: Qanun-e Mas'oudi (The Laws of Astronomy, Geography and Engineering)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna)
Name: Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna)
Birth Date: 981 AD
Death Date: 1037 AD
Birth Place: Bukhara (Uzbekistan)
Death Place: Hamedan (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of Modern Medicine, Physician, Chemist, Physicist, Natural Scientist, Astronomer, Philosopher (Father of Avicennism)
Most Important Book: (1) Al Qanun fil Teb (The Law of Medicine), (2) Daneshnameh Alai (Book of Scientific Knowledge)
Historical Period: Samanid Dynasty, Qaznavid Dynasty
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Omar Khayyam
Name: Omar Khayyam
Birth Date: 1048 AD
Death Date: 1131 AD
Birth Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Death Place: Neyshabur (Iran)
Type of Scientist: Father of Algebra, Mathematician, Astronomer (Calendar Reform), Poet (Legendary world famous poet)
Most Important Book: Rubaiyat (Quatrains)
Historical Period: Seljuqid
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