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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (218407)	2/14/2007 3:31:51 PM
From: Garden Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Brian, many more medical discoveries than these below, however, I read a lot of the Iranian press and over the year or so, there have been many announcements of breakthroughs in medical discoveries, if I can find them I'll post, in any event, thanks for your contribution and here's some: Contribution of Iranians to modern science Iranian scientists are a significant portion of international scientific community. In 1960, Ali Javan invented first gas laser. In 1973 fuzzy set theory has been developed by Lotfi Zadeh. Iranian cardiologist, Tofy Mussivand invented the first Artificial heart and developed it further afterwards. HbA1c was discovered by Samuel Rahbar and introduced to medical community. Vafa-Witten theorem was proposed by Cumrun Vafa, Iranian string theorist and his co-worker Edward Witten. KPZ equation has been named after Mehran Kardar, notable Iranian physicist. Here are some representative discoveries and innovations by Iranian scientists and engineers throughout the world: Pierre Omidyar founded eBay in 1995Karim Nayernia: discovery of spermatagonial stem cells. Reza Ghadiri: 1998 Feynman prize for invention of a self-organized replicating molecular system. Mehdi Vaez-Iravani: invention of Shear force microscopy. Siavash Alamouti and Vahid Tarokh: invention of space–time block code Faraneh Vargha-Khadem: discovery of SPCH1 , a gene implicated in a severe speech and language disorder Shirin Dehghan: 2006 Women in Technology Award. [8] Nader Engheta, inventor of "invisibility shield" or plasmonic cover. Research leader of the year 2006, Scientific American magazine.[9] and winner of Guggenheim Fellowships (1999) for "Fractional paradigm of classical electrodynamics." Ali Safaeinili: coinventor of MARSIS. [10] Pierre Omidyar, economist, founder and chairman of eBay. Shahriar Afshar who proposed Afshar experiment. According to a study carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Iranian scientists and engineers in US own or control around 880 billion dollars.[22] en.wikipedia.org