Mehdi Golshani
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Professor Mehdi Golshani (Persian: مهدی گلشنی born 1939 Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theroretical physicists and Philosopher. He received his BSc in Physics from Tehran University in 1959, and his PhD in Physics with specialization in particle Physics in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his PhD dissertation was "Electron impact excitation of heavily ionized atoms."
Mehdi Golshani is a distinguished lecturer and researcher. His main research areas are Foundational Physics, Particle Physics, physical cosmology, and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics. He is a well-known thinker in the Islamic world about science, religion and their interrelation.
Golshani is the founder and chairman of the Faculty of the Philosophy of Science at the Sharif University of Technology. He is also director of Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran, and Professor of Sharif University of Technology, Physics Department and Senior Fellow of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), School of Physics.
Golshani is a member of American Association of Physics Teachers - Center for Theology and Natural Science and Senior Associate of International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He is also Member of Philosophy of Science Association, Michigan, USA and European Society for the Study of Science and Theology.
It has been said that Golshani wants to be a Muslim scientist and thinker who has deep roots in both science and religion. Also it was told and officially expressed in his website [1]that he won the John Templeton Award of Sciences-Religion Course Program while his name is listed in official John Templeton as a prize judge [2]not a pervious winner[3]. Golshani has written numerous books and articles on physics, philosophy of physics, science and religion, and science and theology. In all of Golshani’s works, there is a clear attempt to help revive the scientific spirit in the Muslim world.
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- 1- تحليلى بر ديدگاههاى فلسفى فيزيكدانان معاصر (a Probe into the Philosophical Viewpoints of Contemporary Physicists)
- 2-The Holy Quran and the Science of Nature, Global Publications, New York, 1998
- 3-From Physics to Metaphysics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, 1998
- 4-Can Science Dispense with Religion? ed. Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, second edition, Tehran, 2002
