Introducing Successful Iranian Americans : Shahriar Afshar

Shahriar Sadigh Afshar  is an Iranian-American physicist and a multiple award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. As of July 2004, Afshar is a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University.His highest academic degree is B.S.He is a member of the high IQ society Mensa International.

Afshar's experiment is an optical experiment, which is claimed to demonstrate a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics. As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity.These personal attacks drew a rebuke in a New Scientist editorial, which called them "extreme", and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".
More recently Afshar has been concentrating on his commercial interests, as President, CEO & CTO of Immerz Inc, a Cambridge MA startup, in the consumer electronics games field. His award-winning invention KOR-fx is considered to be the next step towards full media immersion and in his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.

On November 18, 2009, on the eve of LHC's launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs Boson in a New Scientist commentary, and Popular Science award article offering instead his own theory on the origin of inertia. The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced on July 4, 2012 by CERN scientists, which leaves Afshar on the losing side of Higgs bet. (Actually, the evidence at CERN suggests the Higgs, but few reputable physicists have called it completely dispositive as of yet. Certainly, the Director of CERN has not. From the New York Times, "I think we have it,” said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of CERN, the multinational research center headquartered in Geneva. The agency is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the immense particle accelerator that produced the new data by colliding protons. The findings were announced by two separate teams. Dr. Heuer called the discovery 'a historic milestone.' He and others said that it was too soon to know for sure, however, whether the new particle is the one predicted by the Standard Model, the theory that has ruled physics for the last half-century.)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahriar_Afshar