| LC control no. | n 88077048 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Naderi, F. Michael |
| Variant(s) | Naderi, Firouz Michael |
| Associated country | United States Iran |
| Birth date | 1946-03-25 |
| Death date | 2023-06-09 |
| Place of birth | Shīrāz (Iran) |
| Field of activity | Astronautics Electrical engineering |
| Affiliation | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Iowa State University University of Southern California |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers |
| Found in | His NASA's advanced communications technology satellite (ACTS), 1988: t.p. (F. Michael Naderi, NASA Headquarters) Washington post WWW site, viewed June 27, 2023 (in obituary updated June 26, 2023: Firouz Naderi, a NASA official who oversaw the successful landing of two exploration rovers on Mars, died June 9 at 77. Dr. Naderi, who was trained as an electrical engineer, left his native Iran in the wake of the Islamic revolution of 1979 and was hired later that year by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Dr. Naderi had a wide-ranging career at NASA and served as director for solar system exploration before his retirement in 2016. But he was perhaps best known for his work as head of the Mars exploration program at JPL, a role he held from 2000 to 2005. Firouz Michael Naderi was born in Shiraz, Iran, on March 25, 1946. Dr. Naderi received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1969. He continued his studies at the University of Southern California, where he received a master's degree in 1972 and a PhD in 1976, also in electrical engineering) |
| Associated language | eng |
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