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Iran celebrates the 90th birthday of its pioneering woman physicist

NOV 11, 2010
Physics Today
Tehran Times : Iran’s government-owned English-language paper, the Tehran Times, reports today on a recent ceremony to honor Alenush Terian on her 90th birthday. In 1964, Terian became Iran’s first female physics professor. Two years later she helped to found Tehran University’s solar observatory.
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