Farhad Ardalan
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Farhad Ardalan (in Persian:فرهاد اردلان, Born 1939 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian High Energy physicist and University lecturer.
He is known for the proposal of the para-string theory, construction of modular invariant partition functions for WZNW models via orbifold method, classification of 11-dimensional supergravity solutions with a quotient structure, and discovery of non-commutativity in D-branes of string theory.
He is also known for research work in superstring theory and in particular non-commutative Yang-Mills theory.
Farhad Ardalan and physicist Reza Mansouri have been the main architects of theoretical physics in Iran.
He is a professor of Physics at Sharif University and IPM.
Forager 15:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC) His degree history is BA, Columbia College (1963), MA, Columbia University (1966), PhD, Pennsylvania State University (1970).
