Ebrahim Victory (; born 26 December 1933) is an Iranian mechanical engineer and researcher for the

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, the

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, and

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. He is also an author and the host of a television show in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

Early life

Victory was born in 1933 in Tehran, Iran. He attended the Kourosh Primary School and the Firooz Bahram High School in Iran. He came to the

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in 1952, and after one year of studying English at Wesley Junior College in

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, he attended the Massachusettes Institute of Technology from 1953 to 1958, where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science, and Master of Science in

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

with specialties in textiles technology and

aerodynamics Aerodynamics () is the study of the motion of atmosphere of Earth, air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dynamics and its subfield of gas dynamics, and is an ...

Career

During the years 1957 to 1958, he taught a course on textiles technology at the graduate school of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and performed research on a project for the

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designing a wind tunnel for testing parachute fabrics. From 1958 to 1975, he participated in research projects involving the effects of

nuclear weapons A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either nuclear fission, fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and nuclear fusion, fusion reactions (thermonuclear weap ...

for the U.S. Air Force, silent propulsion systems for the

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, and combustion instability in rockets for

. He also worked for

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and other American industrial companies in product development. From 1977 to 1978, he worked as a consultant to the Agriculture Ministry in

. Upon his return from

, he established his own company developing custom-made computer programs for medium-sized companies. He is well known to the Iranian community in the United States through his interviews in various radio programs; for the past twelve years, he has been appearing on various Persian radio and television programs speaking on subjects relating to

space exploration Space exploration is the process of utilizing astronomy and space technology to investigate outer space. While the exploration of space is currently carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration is conducted bo ...

astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...

, and

cosmology Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', with the meaning of "a speaking of the wo ...

. Since September 2002, he has been writing and hosting a weekly two-hour TV program called ''The Wonders of the Universe'' which has appeared on Channel One and Andisheh TV. In 2008, he hosted live television quizzes for a show called ''Red Chair.'' He awarded Golden Coins to the people who could answer scientific questions about cosmology, astronomy, and Nasa history. He is the author of some fifty scientific articles on the results of his research and over 500 popular science articles on space,

, and

for various

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magazines and publications. His four books entitled ''The Wonders Of The Universe'', ''The Mysteries Of The Universe'', Part One and Two, and ''God, Religion and Science'' are a collection of some 60 of his comprehensive articles in both English and Persian. His last book is entitled ''Cosmic Phenomenon''. Victory is a Fellow of the Society of

Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is an international non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a faculty member and graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest ...

. He was previously a member of the

American Rocket Society The American Rocket Society (ARS) began its existence on 4 April 1930, under the name of the American Interplanetary Society. It was founded by science fiction writers G. Edward Pendray, David Lasser, Laurence Manning, Nathan Schachner, and ot ...

, the

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, the

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, the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...

, and the Explorers Society.

Selected publications

* ''The Wonders Of The Universe A Collection of the Scientific Writing of Ebrahim Victory''. Alik Printing and Publishing Co., 1997. * ''The Mysteries of the Universe Part One: A Collection of the Scientific Writings of Ebrahim Victory''. Hakak Publishing, 2005. * ''The Mysteries of the Universe Part Two'', 2007. * ''God, Religion, and Science - Why Man Created God''. City Wide Printing, 2008. * ''Cosmic Phenomenon,'' 2009.

References

Victory's Biography

Interviews in Channel One TV

External links

Official website of Ebrahim Victory
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