Farhad Ardalan, Iranian physicist (Tehran 03 November 1939 –

Internationally recognized for his work in superstring theory

With F. Mansouri proposed the para-string theory (1974)

With H. Arfaei classified 11-dimensional supergravity solutions with a quotient structure (1986)

With M. Abolhassan constructed modular invariant partition functions for Wess-Zumino-Witten-Novikov models via orbifold method (1994)

Discovered non-commutativity in D-branes of string theory (1999)

Co-discovered a new boson with a mass of 125 GeV (2012)