Abbas AnvariAbbas Anvari was an Iranian academic who was a professor of physics.Life and careerBorn on 6 March 1944, he earned a Ph.D. in physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Anvari served as the chancellor of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran for two terms: 1980–1982 and 1985–1989. He died on 12 July 2025, at the age of 81.