Saghiri Mohammad Ali, Ershadifar Soroush
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, California, US.
Dr. Hajar Afsar Lajevardi Research Cluster.
J Hist Dent. 2018 Winter;66(3):108-114.
Dr. Kamal Asgar (Asgarzadeh), a respected Iranian-American dental materials scientist, died suddenly on Monday, July 09, 2012, at the age of 89 in his home in Park Ridge, NJ. Dr. Asgar developed Parkinson's disease during the last few years of his life, but the cause of his death was infectious pneumonia. Dr. Kamal Asgar was born in Tabriz, Iran, on August 28, 1922. Finishing his primary education, Dr. Asgar entered the University of Tehran's competitive engineering program. After graduating from the engineering school, he moved to the United States in December 1946 to continue his postgraduate studies in chemical engineering at University of Michigan. Dr. Asgar's interests and unique passions in his academic path led him to become one of the most well-respected and accomplished dental materials scientist in the world. During his time at U of M, Dr. Asgar started working at Dr. Floyd Avery Peyton's laboratory in Michigan, where he met his future wife, Sophie Asgar. With the persuasion of his professors, he decided to start working on amalgam alloy at Dr. Peyton's lab. His relationship with his mentors, and later on colleagues and friends, had profound effect on his career and life. Dr. Asgar published his first article in dental materials at this time.
卡迈勒·阿斯加尔博士（阿斯加尔扎德）是一位备受尊敬的伊朗裔美国牙科材料科学家，于2012年7月9日星期一在新泽西州帕克里奇的家中突然去世，享年89岁。阿斯加尔博士在生命的最后几年患上了帕金森病，但他的死因是感染性肺炎。卡迈勒·阿斯加尔博士于1922年8月28日出生在伊朗大不里士。完成小学教育后，阿斯加尔博士进入了德黑兰大学竞争激烈的工程专业。从工程学院毕业后，他于1946年12月搬到美国，在密歇根大学继续攻读化学工程研究生。阿斯加尔博士在学术道路上的兴趣和独特热情使他成为世界上最受尊敬和成就斐然的牙科材料科学家之一。在密歇根大学期间，阿斯加尔博士开始在密歇根州弗洛伊德·艾弗里·佩顿博士的实验室工作，在那里他遇到了他未来的妻子索菲·阿斯加尔。在教授们的劝说下，他决定在佩顿博士的实验室开始研究汞合金。他与导师以及后来的同事和朋友的关系对他的职业生涯和生活产生了深远影响。阿斯加尔博士此时发表了他的第一篇关于牙科材料的文章。
