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Ebrahim Victory was born in Teheran Iran on December 26, 1933 (12 Bahman, 1312). He attended the Kourosh Primary School and the Firooz Bahram High School in Iran. He came to the United States in 1952, and after one year of studying English at Wesley Junior College in Dover, Delaware, he attended M.I.T. from 1953 to 1958, where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science, and Master of Science, in Mechanical Engineering with specialties in textiles technology and aerodynamics. During the years 1957-1958, he also taught a course on textiles technology at the graduate school of
M.I.T., and performed research on a project for the U.S. Air Force designing a wind tunnel for testing parachute fabrics. Upon leaving
M.I.T. he worked as a consultant in research projects for various American corporations, U.S. Air Force projects on the Effects of Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Navy projects on Silent Propulsion, and NASA projects on Combustion Instability. In 1977 he returned to his native country, Iran, where he held the post of Managing Director for a consulting firm associated with the Ministry of Agriculture. Upon his return from Iran, he established his own company developing custom made computer programs for medium sized companies. For the past twelve years he has been appearing on various Persian radio and TV programs speaking on subjects relating to space exploration, astronomy, and cosmology. These have included programs of such Iranian journalistic luminaries as Parviz Kardan, Alireza Meybody, and Sharam Homayoun. Since September 2002, he has been hosting a weekly two hour TV program called “The Wonders of the Universe,” which he writes himself and is aired on Channel One International satellite TV. He is the author of some 50 scientific articles on the results of his research, as well as well over 500 popular science articles on space, astronomy, and cosmology for various Persian language magazines and publications.
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