Nobel Prize interviews
Since early 2000s when I joined the Daneshmand magazine, Iran's oldest scientific publication, I started, under the supervision of my former chief editor and close friend, Ali Akbar Ghazvini, to conduct exclusive interviews with prominent scientists of the world, especially the Nobel Prize laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine. This initiative was welcomed by a great number of readers across Iran and considered as a tribute to the country's scientific community. I'm glad that I have had this opportunity which the proficient journalist and amiable companion Ali Akbar Ghazvini provided for me, and so far have interviewed dozens of Nobel Prize laureates. This experience has given diversity to my career and enriched my understanding of the surrounding world. In this section, you'll find my exclusive interviews with the Nobel Prize laureates which were originally printed in Persian in the Daneshmand magazine.
Kourosh Ziabari - Prof. Roald Hoffmann is a unique personality in the history of chemistry and one of the world's well-renowned theoretical chemists and it is a thrilling experience to read an in-depth interview with him. It might be asserted that Prof. Hoffmann is the world's most literature-loving chemist, as he has published several poetry and play books and some plays by him have even been performed. Roald Hoffman was born on July 18, 1937 and is 75 years old now.
He was born to Polish parents in the city of Zolochiv which is now located in Ukraine. His parents named him in honor of the famous Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the Japanese chemist Kenichi Fukui “for their...
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