ALINOUSH TORIAN: THE FIRST LADY PHYSICS PROFESSOR IN IRAN
Fars News Agency: Iran's First Lady Physics Professor is now resting gracefully at an Old Age Home after founding Iran's First Observatory and Solar Telescope in Iran's Astronomical History, and graduating from Sorbonne University, and teaching for thirty years. Her only honor is educating successful students - today's professors.
Alinoush Torian was born in 1299 [Iranian Solar Calendar = 1920 A.D.] to an Armenian family in Teheran. In June 1947 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences of the Teheran University. In August of the same year she became an employee of the Physics Laboratories of the College of Sciences, and a year later was appointed as the Head Laboratory Technician of the same College.
After unsuccessful attempts to have her professor, Dr. Hessabi [he was Einstein's student and one of Iran's most famous Physics Scientists in the World] sponsor her to be sent to Europe for further studies with scholarship; she travelled at her own expense to France and enrolled at the Atmospheric Physics of Paris University.
In 1956 she received her Doctorate of Philosophy Degree from the Paris Sciences University, and declined a professorship position at the Sorbonnes University and returned to Iran to serve her Nation as Assistant Professor of Physics and Thermodynamics.
In 1958 the Government of the West German Federal Republic availed to Teheran University a scholarship for graduate Post Doctoral Research in Solar Physics Observatory. She was chosen and left Iran in 1959. She returned after nine months of Research.
In June 1964 she was appointed as Iran's First Female Professor of Physics [and I presume one of the First Female Professors of Iran ever!]
In October 1965 she was elected to the Geo-physical Committee of the Teheran University. And in 1968 she was appointed as the Head of Solar Physics Research Group of Teheran University's Institute of Geo-physics; and started work in the Solar Physics Observatory - which she herself was a primary founder of!
She was the First Person who started teaching the Physics of Astronomy.
In 1978 she requested to retire and her wish was passed.
Ezzatollah Arzi, President of Physics Society of Iran who was once Alinoush Torian's student revealed to Fars News Agency that Professor Torian had a very courteous and professional mannerism. She was very kind indeed. And she was friends with us all. Her approach and her demeanor were imbued with deep humility. She was instrumental in the field of Solar Physics Sciences in Iran which eventually led to the development of the field of astronomical physics and solar physics.
Alinoush Torian has given away her home to charity; and since she has no children nor any relatives in Iran, she is living in Towhid Old Age Home. For an interview with the First Lady Professor of Physics in Iran, we went there in the company of one her long time friends. She welcomed us with open arms and a serene and jolly demeanor, and invited us to feel at home while smiling broadly.
When we asked her to reminisce from her teaching days at the University, she smiled and responded all my teaching memories are happy memories! I loved my students and as a result they loved me back. Thus I never felt uneasy. I regarded my students as friends and never felt the need to get pompous with them. A teacher must be kind because she must teach serenity to the students - these are the future of the nation! If professors are bad tempered, they may not be proper role models. * Best Memories: 30 years of teaching at the Teheran University and the founding of the Solar Observatory in Iran. * Main reason for success during her teaching career: Humility! One of my colleagues enquired why do students visit you so frequently and converse with you while none do the same with us! My response was surely your approach has not been warm. * Did you use a scholarship to study in France? I was always an achiever in my class and attracted the attention of my teachers and professors. When I finished my Bachelors Degree I asked my professor for help to receive a scholarship to further my studies. However he declined because I was a female and reminded me that I have already overstepped my limits! My father offered to pay for my expenses saying that scholarships are for needy students. I went to France and obtained my Doctorate from Sorbonne. Despite having a position offered to me there, I decided to return to Iran. * What made you decline the Sorbonne offer? I wanted to return to my nation, Iran. I had an offer to start work there even before graduation. However I told my French professor that I have come here only to study and return to Iran. Many chided me for my stupidity. However I am happy to have taught to a whole generation of students. * You are conversant in how many languages? My mother was Swiss educated. My parents spoke French, Persian, and Armenian; and oftentimes conversed in French with each other. My brother and I also spoke Armenian and Persian. We also learned French. I can also converse in English and in Turkish. Many scientific articles are in English. * Have you ever made a trip to Armenia? This was a dream of my Youth Days! Before the Revolution, Armenian Borders were closed to us. ... After the Revolution I didn't have the capability to make the trip.
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