Ambassador of Iran to CanadaIn office
October 1974 – November 1978MonarchMohammad Reza PahlaviPresidentAmir-Abbas Hoveyda
Jamshid Amouzegar
Jafar Sharif-Emami Preceded byParviz AdlSucceeded byAbulhassan BakhtiarChancellor of Tehran UniversityIn office
1967–1970Preceded byJahanshah SalehSucceeded byAlinaghi AlikhaniChancellor of Aryamehr UniversityIn office
1967–1968Preceded byMohammad Ali MojtahediSucceeded byMohammad Reza Amin Personal detailsBorn(1915-01-01)1 January 1915
Rasht, IranDied19 November 2019(2019-11-19) (aged 104)
Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaAlma materUniversity of Tehran
Columbia University
Polytechnic University of New York
Syracuse UniversityKnown forNetwork and Information Theory
Ambassador of Iran to the Canada (1975–1979)

Fazlollah Reza (Persian: فضل‌الله رضا; January 1, 1915 – November 19, 2019) was an Iranian university professor.

Career

Reza graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tehran in 1938, receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He received a master's and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1946 and Polytechnic University of New York (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering) in 1950 respectively. He was a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS for his contribution to network and information theory. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and wrote and spoke extensively on classical Persian poetry.

Positions

Reza served as the head of Aryamehr University of Industry (Sharif University of Technology), University of Tehran, Iran's ambassador to Canada and Iran's ambassador to UNESCO. As a professor, he taught at MIT, McGill University, Concordia University, and the University of Tehran.

Bibliography

• Reza, Fazlollah M.; Seeley, Samuel (1959). Modern Network Analysis (PDF).
• Reza, Fazlollah M. (1961). An Introduction to Information Theory. ISBN 0486682102.
• Reza, Fazlollah M. (1971). Linear spaces in engineering.
• Reza, Fazlollah M. (1972). The timeless value of Persian poetry = La valeur éternelle de la poésie persane. Éditions de la délégation de l'Iran, auprès de l'Unesco.

See also

• Enayatollah Reza (brother)
• Esmail Merat

External links

• Short biography Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

Academic offices
Preceded by Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi	Chancellor of Aryamehr University 1967–1968	Succeeded by Mohammad Reza Amin
Preceded by Jahanshah Saleh	Chancellor of University of Tehran 1967–1970	Succeeded by Alinaghi Alikhani