The IASBS President, Prof Sadollah Nasiri Gheydari, has paid tribute to the memory of the country’s martyred scientists in an interview with Ba Nokhbegan on the Ishraq Provincial Network. He recalled his memories of, and scientific links with, several prominent figures and stressed the continuation of the country’s scientific path through training new generations of scientists.

According to the Public Relations Office of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), the IASBS President made reference to his academic and scientific career and recalled his years as a student at Shiraz University and his scientific collaboration with Prof Yousef Sobhouti in Zanjan. He also recounted some of his experiences during his years of scientific and academic activity.

He went on to pay tribute to the memory of the martyred scientists and named the martyred scientists Dr Fereydoun Abbasi, Dr Masoud Alimohammadi, and Dr Mansour Asgari as his classmates at Shiraz University. He also spoke about his academic collaboration and contacts with the martyred scientists Dr Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, Dr Minoocher, Dr Zolfaghari, and Dr Faghihi.

Highlighting the scientific and ethical stature of the martyred scientist, Dr Faghihi, the IASBS President described him as a prominent scientist and said that an important part of these scientists’ legacy, alongside their scientific works, lay in the students they had trained, who were now continuing their lecturers’ scientific path.

The IASBS President stressed the importance of mentoring students as part of the academic mission, saying: “The scientific path does not come to a halt with the loss of a scientist, because the knowledge and experience of university lecturers live on in subsequent generations, and their students can take forward the path they began with their own abilities and knowledge.”

Referring to the scientific links between successive generations of the country’s scientists and commemorating the martyred scientist, Dr Majid Shahriari, he added: “Training students and nurturing a new generation of researchers is one of the most important duties of university lecturers. It is this scientific cycle that makes it possible for the country’s scientific progress to continue.”

In another part of the interview, the IASBS President referred to the potential of nuclear science and stressed its peaceful applications in fields such as medicine and energy. He said: “Nuclear science can serve human health, energy provision, and efforts to meet the future needs of the society.”

The interview will be broadcast next week on the Ishraq Provincial Network.