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I am not and do not pretend to be a historian of science. However, I am a scientist who knows about the state of the sciences in Iran at the time when I was an elementary and high school student in Tehran in the 1950s. I completed my university education in Vienna, a city in which those traditions such as Heinrich Hertz, Ernst Mach, Erwin Schrodinger, and the Vienna School of Philosophy were still alive. Since the Islamic Revolution, I have continued to play a role in the evolution of science in Iran. I have acquired a keen understanding of the relationship between Iranian thought and the different meanings of s cience. When I was in elementary school, our living conditions and the facilities to which we had access in Tehran were not much different from the conditions that prevailed eight hundred years ago: We had no electricity, no televisions, no refrigerators. I still recall the dusty streets after the first public city bus lines were established in the neighborhood where we lived.
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Mansouri, R. (2013). The History of Science in Iran from a Physicist’s Perspective. In: Soofi, A.S., Ghazinoory, S. (eds) Science and Innovations in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030108_2
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