Shahriar Afshar

Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ‎) (born 1971 ) 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. 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 has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in a New Scientist editorial, which...