Hessabi was born in
Tehran to the family of Abbas and Goharshad Hessabi. His family's hometown is
Tafresh,
Markazi province, Iran. His family moved to
Beirut in 1907 when his father was appointed consul at the Iranian embassy. There Hessabi attended primary school. He was still in
secondary school when
World War I started prompting the closure of his school and so Hessabi continued his education at home and in 1922, he earned a degree in
road engineering from the
American University of Beirut. After briefly working for the Ministry of Roads, Beirut, Hessabi travelled to
Paris for further education, where he was awarded a degree in
electrical engineering at the École Superieure d'Electricité and later a doctorate degree in 1927. In Paris, he worked with
Aime Cotton. In Tehran, Hessabi was affiliated with the
University of Tehran and organized the science and engineering faculties of the university. He was the teacher of
Alenush Terian while she studied at the university. In June 1951, Hessabi was appointed to a three-man provincial board of the Iranian oil company, the designated successor of the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Dr. Hessabi led the nationalisation of the company and became its first CEO. In December 1951, he replaced Karim Sanjaby as minister of education. Between 1961 and 1969, Hessabi was Iran's representative on the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the
United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. During the congress honoring "60 Years of Physics in Iran," his services were celebrated, and he was dubbed "the father of modern physics in Iran." ==Museum==