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Fazlollah Reza
Fazlollah Reza
فضل‌الله رضا
Ambassador of Iran to Canada
	In office; October 1974 – November 1978
Monarch	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
President	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda; Jamshid Amouzegar; Jafar Sharif-Emami
Preceded by	Parviz Adl
Succeeded by	Abulhassan Bakhtiar
Chancellor of Tehran University
	In office; 1967–1970
Preceded by	Jahanshah Saleh
Succeeded by	Alinaghi Alikhani
Chancellor of Aryamehr University
	In office; 1967–1968
Preceded by	Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Reza Amin
Personal details
Born	1 January 1915; Rasht, Sublime State of Persia; (present-day Iran)
Died	19 November 2019 (aged 104); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	University of Tehran ; Columbia University ; Polytechnic University of New York ; Syracuse University
Known for	Network 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.

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.

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.

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

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