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| Things you should know |
2003 Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Shirin Ebadi --
Iran's first female judge for fighting for children and women and
for taking on cases others were too afraid to touch.
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Shirin Ebadi Lecture (english)
Shirin Ebadi Lecture (farsi)
Kôrosh e Bozorg (Cyrus the Great) declared the first Charter of Human Rights known to mankind, which is
written on a clay cylinder at Babylon.
Mohammad Zakariya Râzi found Alcohol for the first time in 8th century A.D.
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Gas Laser The first type of laser was Gas Laser (which is being widely used in medical systems & industry)
and it was invented by Ali Javân an Iranian physicist in MIT (1960 A.D.).
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According to the 1990 census 59% of Iranian-American hold Bachelor degrees or above,
and more than 27% hold graduate degrees, making them the highest educated minority group in the U.S.
Iranian-Americans are the founders of some 280 major national firms, and the CEOs of more than 400 national companies,
many of them among the Fortune 1,000 companies. The total contribution of Iranian-American community to the U.S. economy
is estimated at more than $400 billion.
Famous Iranian Celebrities
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