Editing Mahmoud Hessabi (section)

==Life==
Hessabi was born in [[Tehran]] to the family of Abbas and Goharshad Hessabi. His family's hometown is [[Tafresh]], [[Markazi province]], Iran.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iranchamber.com/personalities/mhessaby/mhessaby.php|title=Iranian Personalities: Professor Mahmoud Hessabi |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher= Iran Chamber Society }}</ref> His family moved to [[Beirut]] in 1907 when his father was appointed consul at the Iranian embassy.<ref>{{cite book|author1=H. E. Chehabi|author2=Hassan I. Mneimneh|editor=H. E. Chehabi|title=Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years|year=2007|publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]]|location=New York|isbn=9781860645617|page=18|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/DistantRelations/Distant%20relations_djvu.txt|chapter=Five Centuries of Lebanese–Iranian Encounters}}</ref> There Hessabi attended primary school. He was still in [[secondary school]] when [[World War I]] started prompting the closure of his school and so Hessabi continued his education at home and in 1922, he earned a degree in [[road engineering]] from the [[American University of Beirut]]. After briefly working for the Ministry of Roads, Beirut, Hessabi travelled to [[Paris]] for further education, where he was awarded a degree in [[electrical engineering]] at the École Superieure d'Electricité and later a doctorate degree in 1927. In Paris, he worked with [[Aime Cotton]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Tarikhi |first=Parviz |year=2014 |title=The Iranian Space Endeavor: Ambitions and Reality |publisher=Springer |page=47 }}</ref>

In Tehran, Hessabi was affiliated with the [[University of Tehran]] and organized the science and engineering faculties of the university. He was the teacher of [[Alenush Terian]] while she studied at the university.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1007/s00016-012-0085-x | volume=14 | issue=2 | title=Alenush Terian: The Iranian Solar Mother|year=2012 | journal=Physics in Perspective | pages=239–241 | last1 = Talebian | first1 = Mohammad | last2 = Talebian | first2 = Ehsan| bibcode=2012PhP....14..239T | s2cid=120601020 | doi-access=free }}</ref> In June 1951, Hessabi was appointed to a three-man provincial board of the Iranian oil company, the designated successor of the [[Anglo-Iranian Oil Company]]. Dr. Hessabi led the nationalisation of the company and became its first CEO. In December 1951, he replaced Karim Sanjaby as minister of education.<ref name="NYT"/> Between 1961 and 1969, Hessabi was Iran's representative on the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the [[United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space]]. 

During the congress honoring "60 Years of Physics in Iran," his services were celebrated, and he was dubbed "the father of modern physics in Iran."