Abbas Shafiee

{{short description|Iranian pharmaceutical chemist (1937–2016)}}

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Abbas Shafiee (September 25, 1937 – June 15, 2016){{cite web|url=http://pharmacyen.tums.ac.ir/en/ndt/1080/Homage-to-Prof--Abbas-Shafiee|title=Homage to Prof. Abbas Shafiee|first= |website=targan.ir |publisher=Faculty of Pharmacy - Tehran University of Medical Sciences}} was an Iranian pharmaceutical chemist. He was the president of faculty of pharmacy at Tehran University.{{cite book|last=Katritzky|first=Alan R.|series=Advances in heterocyclic chemistry|editor=Alan R. Katritzky|publisher=Academic Press|year=1979|edition=illustrated|volume=24|pages=109–150|isbn=0-12-020624-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZ2cBUqq2QIC&q=Abbas+Shafiee&pg=PA109|accessdate=31 December 2009 |doi=10.1016/S0065-2725(08)60509-7 |title=Selenium-Nitrogen Heterocycles }} He published more than 350 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals.{{cite web|url=http://www.tums.ac.ir/english/faculties/cv.asp?facultyID=1444 |title=CV: Abbas Shafiee |publisher=Tehran University of Medical Sciences |accessdate=31 December 2009 |location=Tehran |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064136/http://www.tums.ac.ir/english/faculties/cv.asp?facultyID=1444 |archivedate=16 July 2011 }}

Shafiee received his degree in Pharmacy from Tehran University in 1962, later earning a master's from Columbia University's College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the same institution in 1968.

==Selected honoraria==

• National Winner of Merit, Lunsford Richardson Award for graduate research (USA), 1968
• Research Award, Tehran University, 1972
• Ministry of Higher Education award for Research, 1974
• First Degree Kharazmi Award, 1987
• Permanent Member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences 1990.
• Member of Iranian Academy of Science, Tehran 1991.
• Tehran University's Highest Honorary Award, 1994
• Iranian Chemical Society Year's Chemist, 1995
• His book, Chromatography and spectroscopy, was named best book of the year and received the corresponding award from the Interior Ministry in 1996 and the Ministry of Health in 1995 {{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1998
• First degree Razi Award, 1998
• Second degree National Award for Research, 1999
• Best National Book of the Year, 2000{{cite web|url=http://www.ibb.ut.ac.ir/adjps/shafiee_en.htm |title=Abbas Shafiee |publisher=Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics |accessdate=31 December 2009 |location=Tehran |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025025947/http://www.ibb.ut.ac.ir/adjps/shafiee_en.htm |archivedate=25 October 2010 }}

==Books==

• Chromatography and Spectroscopy, Tehran University Publications, 1373.
• Antibiotics, Tehran University Press, 1371.
• Asm, Academic Publishing Center, 2013.
• An introduction to the mechanism of organic chemistry reactions, Tehran University Press, 1354.
• Jahangiri's Guide to Good Psychopharmacology Prescribing: A Practical Manual English - Persian Edition; Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2018-05-04). Hamideh Jahangiri, Alireza Norouzi, Abbass Shafiee. ISBN 978-613-8-38586-8.
• Jahangiri's Medical Dictionary, English-Persian Volume 4 (Pharmacotherapy), Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2018-02-16). Hamideh Jahangiri, Alireza Norouzi, Abbass Shafiee. ISBN 978-613-7-38206-6.