Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
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| Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi محمد علی مجتهدی |
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| Born | September 23, 1908 Lahijan, Iran |
| Died | July 1, 1997 (aged 88) Nice, France |
| Citizenship |  Iran France |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Field | Professor |
| Institutions | Alborz High School |
| Alma mater | University of Lille University of Paris |
| Known for | Mathematics Mechanical Engineering |
| Religion | Muslim |
Dr Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Gilani (23 September 1908 – 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran.
Founder of Sharif University of Technology(originally Aryamehr Technical University) and dean of Tehran Polytechnic University (currently renamed to Amirkabir University of Technology). Memoirs of Mohammad-Ali Modjtahedi (Persian) 2000 were published as part of Harvard University's Iranian Oral History Project, editor Habib Ladjevardi. ISBN 964-7359-10-1
[edit] Life
He was born on September 23, 1908 in Lahijan, Guilan in the northern part of Iran. He started his elementary school at the age of seven at Haghighat school after which he came to Tehran to continue his education at the Daar-Ol-Moallemin-E-Markazi in 1925. He finished high school at Madrese-Motevasete in the eastern part of Tehran and received his high school diploma in 1931. In 1932, among 100 other prominent students, he was sent to France for higher education. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1938.[1]
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