# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mohammad-ali-zolfigol
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:13:54.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mohammad-ali-zolfigol"
name: "Mohammad Ali Zolfigol"
slug: "mohammad-ali-zolfigol"
description: "Mohammad Ali Zolfigol is an Iranian professor of chemistry and former Minister of Science, Research and Technology from 2021 to 2024. He was the President of Bu-Ali Sina University from August 2, 2008 to June 8, 2014. He is also a permanent member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran.\nIn 2022 Zolfigol had four of his research publications retracted by the Royal Society of Chemistry because of concerns regarding the authenticity of chemicals used in the published studies and the reproducibility of the experiments."
tagline: "Chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%81%DB%8C_%DA%AF%D9%842.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.52
  momentum:             10
  historical:           6.388845333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "محمد علی زلفی گول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محمد علي زولفيغول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محمدعلی زلفی‌قل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Ali_Zolfigol"
    title: "Mohammad Ali Zolfigol"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%81%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D9%84"
    title: "محمدعلی زلفی‌گل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Ali_Zolfigol"
    title: "Mohammad Ali Zolfigol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Ali_Zolfigol"
    title: "Mohammad Ali Zolfigol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump