Mar 1, 2010, 7:14 PM

Best of Iranian academies honored

TEHRAN, March 1 (MNA) -- Selected scholars from Iran’s academies were honored during a ceremony held Sunday at the Iran National Library and Archive.

The permanent member of the Academy of Medical Sciences Ali-Akbar Velayati was honored during the event. He is the chairman of the Islamic and Traditional Medicine section of the academy.

Mainly known as an Iranian politician, he acquired his M.D. from the University of Tehran and pediatrics degrees from Johns Hopkins University.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) gestures after honoring calligrapher Gholam-Hossein Amirkhani (R) from the Iranian Academy of Arts during a ceremony at the Iran National Library and Archive on February 28, 2010. Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature director Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel is also seen in the photo. (Photo by Arman Teimurian)

He has collaborated with WHO (World Health Organization) and UNICEF and he is Chairman of the Iranian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine.

Physics scholar Mehdi Golshani, a permanent member of the Academy of Science, was also recognized at the ceremony.

Golshani, a Professor of Physics at the Sharif University of Technology, has written seven books, more than 85 articles on physics and has edited four books and co-translated two books.

He won the world’s largest monetary award, the John Templeton Award of Sciences-Religion Course Program.

Literary scholar Salim Neysari was honored as the distinguished permanent member of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature at the ceremony.

Neysari received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University and has conducted much research on Persian language and literature and authored numerous books and articles.

He was honored for his correction of the Divan of Hafez during ceremonies in October 2008 for the commemoration of Hafez in Shiraz.

Tribute to the prominent calligrapher and permanent member of Iranian Academy of Arts Gholam-Hossein Amirkhani was paid during the event.

He has been the head of Supreme Council of the Society for Iranian Calligraphers for the past 18 years and is presently a member of its Board of Trustees.

Master Amirkhani participated in more than one hundred exhibitions in Iran, as well as other countries such as England, France, Germany, Turkey, Syria and the Emirates.

The Iranian Academy of Sciences (1988), Academy of Persian Language and Literature (1990), Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences (1991) and Iranian Academy of Arts (2000) were established by the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council.

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