Alenush Terian: The Iranian Solar Mother
Abstract
We present a biographical sketch of Alenush Terian, the first Iranian woman physicist, who was known as the Iranian Solar Mother, since she founded the first solar telescopic observatory in Iran. She taught and carried out astronomical research for three decades with inadequate resources but with unflinching devotion, motivated by a strong desire to propagate scientific education and research in her country.
- Publication:
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Physics in Perspective
- Pub Date:
- June 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s00016-012-0085-x
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhP....14..239T
- Keywords:
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- Alenush Terian;
- University of Tehran;
- Institute of Geophysics;
- astronomy;
- physics;
- history of astronomy and physics