Mahmoud Hessaby - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

According to the Dr Hessaby Institute, essentially an institution run by his son, the following were some of his accomplishments:

• Founding the Highway Engineering school and teaching there from 1928
• Survey and drawing of the first coastal road-map between Persian Gulf ports
• Founding the "teachers college" and teaching there from 1928
• Construction of the first radio-set in Iran (1928)
• Construction of the first weather-station in 1931
• Installation and operation of the first radiology center in Iran in 1931
• Calculation and setting of Iranian time (1932)
• Founding the first private hospital in Iran (Goharshad Hospital) in 1933
• Writing the University carechair and founding Tehran University (1934)
• Founding the Engineering school in 1934 and acting as the dean of that school until 1936 and teaching there from then on
• Founding the faculty of science and acting as its dean from 1942 to 1948
• Commissioned for the dispossession of British Petroleum Company during the government of Dr Mossadegh and appointed as the first general manager of the National Iranian Oil Company
• Minister of Education in the cabinet of Dr Mossadegh from 1951 to 1952
• Opposing the contract with the consortium while in the Senate of Iran in 1954
• Opposing the membership of Iran in CENTO
• Founding the Telecommunication Center of Assad-Abad in Hamedan (1959)
• Writing the standards charter for the standards Institute of Iran (1954)
• Founding the Geophysical Institute of Tehran University (1961)
• Title of distinguished professor of Tehran University from 1971
• Founding the atomic research center and atomic reactor at Tehran University
• Founding the atomic Energy center of Iran, member of the UN scientific sub-committee of peaceful use of member of the international space committee (1981)
• Establishment of Iran's space research committee and member of the international space committee (1981)
• Establishment of the Iranian music society and founding the Persian language Academy