Akbar etemad biography
Akbar Etemad was the president of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran from 1974 to 1978.!
Akbar Etemad
Former Iranian deputy prime minister (born 1930)
Akbar Etemad (Persian: اکبر اعتماد; born February 3, 1930) was the president of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran from 1974 to 1978.[1][2] He is popularly called the father of Iran's nuclear program.[3]
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he left Iran and established office in Paris and worked there as a nuclear energy consultant.
As of 2009, he was the co-chair of Iranians for Peace.[2]
Early life and career
Etemad was born on February 3, 1930, in Hamadan.
Akbar Etemad.
He got a diploma in electrical engineering from Lausanne University in 1957. He received an in 1958 and a Ph.D. in reactor physics from Lausanne University in 1963. He worked for Brown-Boveri ( Brown, Boveri & Cie.) in Switzerland as a research engineer for one and a half years.
He also worked for the Swiss Federal Institute for Reactor Research as the chief of its nuclear shielding group for five and a half ye