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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Ahmad Yusuf al-Hasan ( June 25 , 1925 – April 28 , 2012 ) was a Palestinian scientist and historian. He was born in the village of Mushayrifa near Umm al-Fahm during the British Mandate of Palestine. He was educated at the Arab College in Jerusalem ; he holds a Syrian passport in addition to Canadian citizenship. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor and is a historian of Arab science and Islamic technology. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of London . He worked at the University of Aleppo and was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and later President of the University of Aleppo , where he founded the Institute of Arab Scientific Heritage in Aleppo and was its first director. He was also the Minister of Petroleum, Mineral Resources and Electricity in Syria .
His professional life
Visiting Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy, University of London .
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Project : Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, and Editor-in-Chief of Volume IV: Science and Technology in Islam.
Visiting Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Toronto .
Member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto .
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Arab Sciences.
Former member of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations University, Tokyo .
Corresponding Member of the International Academy of History of Science.
Corresponding member of the Iraqi Academy.
Honorary Professor at the Institute of Arab Scientific Heritage , University of Aleppo .
His works
investigation
The Combination of Knowledge and Useful Work in the Craft of Tricks, written by Al-Jazari , published in 1979 by the Institute of Arab Scientific Heritage in Aleppo.
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