Al-Biruni, Iran
1973 Iranian post stamp commemorating his one thousandth anniversary Abū-Rayhān Bīrūnī, Iranian scientist and physicist, an anthropologist and psychologist, an astronomer, a chemist, a critic of alchemy and astrology, an encyclopedist and historian, a geographer and traveller, a geodesist and geologist, a mathematician, a pharmacist and physician, an Islamic philosopher and theologian, and a scholar and teacher.