Yousef Sobouti

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Yousef Sobouti (Persian: یوسف ثبوتی , born 1932 in Zanjan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist. He got his undergraduate degree from Tehran University. In 1960 he received his MSc degree in Physics from University of Toronto. He finished his doctoral thesis on Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Chicago in 1963.

He started teaching physics in Sharif University of Technology, and Shiraz University. Sobouti had a significant contribution to the education of Physics and Basic sciences in Iran. His aim was to train young scientists who were capable of performing world class research. He was the main founder of Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS).


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