Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian
Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, born 1929, is the son of the deceased Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. He studied Biology at Reed College, and obtained an MS and PhD in Biological Sciences at Stanford University, where his research focused on marine physiology at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, as well as in a Post-doctorate fellowship at University of California Berkeley. He did research work in membrane physiology, worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and founded the department of Physiology at Shiraz University. A prominent academic in the United States, he was a professor and head of the Biology department at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he worked for 30 years, and visiting professor at Princeton University.
He has two daughters:
- Shahzadi Dellara Khanum Farman Farmaian.
- Shahzadi Kimya Khanum Farman Farmaian. m. Michael Paul Harris
