Bahram Mashhoon

Bahram Mashhoon
بهرام مشحون
Born (1947-09-09) 9 September 1947
Tehran, Iran
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forMashhoon effect
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri
Thesis The Gravitational and Electromagnetic Interactions of a Black Hole
Doctoral advisorJohn Archibald Wheeler

Bahram Mashhoon (Persian: بهرام مشحون, born 9 September 1947) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist who has contributed to the fields of special and general relativity. He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He is known for formulating the Mashhoon effect.